Beautiful Family Photo! Thanks for the update, Ferguson! Very neat to see them all together like that!

That's one very good looking family (and quite prolific, too) ;)

Awesome collection, thanks for sharing! I just saw these pics on filhistory's Facebook page too.

Fantastic collection Steve!
Leave some for everyone else ;)

Yes, it's here. And am the one behind Filhistory at Facebook by the way, for those who still don't know :) Thanks again, Steve! and thanks too, Sta94.

Do the ones with the large ring on the hilt hail from any specific area ?

Like Jose's silver example .. :)

I'll have to leave that question to the experts. While I love and collect them, there is so little that I have found written about them.

Steve

OMG, what a great collection! Do you have a display at your wall or how do you keep them?

Regards,

Detlef

I hang a few of the large ones by cords from my sword racks. The rest are wrapped up in a drawer. I'd love to have them displayed but my "armoury" is just a small room with my computer desk and a chair. I have khukuris, kris, barongs, tenegre and all manner of sharp pointy objects on the walls. I'm afraid that if I venture out of this room with my collection, I might get serious static from She Who Must Be Obeyed. ;)

Steve

Any bigger/individual pics of the one I circled in red, Steve?

It's gorgeous! The carvings are unlike anything I had seen in Moro work. Silverwork looks very Maranao to me though. All in all it's a gorgeous piece.

http://oi56.tinypic.com/f1eckx.jpg

Thanks Pepperskull. It's a relatively new piece, maybe 1970s? The style is different from all my others, and very unique. I'll try to get a picture tonight.
Steve

So far I have not found any indication of region based on this. However, I look instead at the okir work to tell if it is Maranao/Maguindanao or Sulu.

Also if the silver is fused/overlaid/plated onto copper, then it is probably Maranao/Maguindanao.

All of this works more for those made before WWII. After WWII it is very difficult to determine region.

Thanks Jose,
I asked 'cause I have silver ferrule rings like that on a spear .

The spears are a different type of critter. Bulbs mean something different on those.

ThePepperSkull,
Sorry, I forgot about the pictures you asked for. Here you go. Not traditional work, but beautiful in it's own right. It was a gift from a good friend.
Steve

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ed-overall.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...arved-hilt.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...d-scabbard.jpg

25 pounds of Gunong
 

OK. I think I have enough. (Unless I see something really special ) :)
Happy New Year everyone.

Steve

Awesome collection Steve! Your examples are never just average and always flawless. You have a good eye and terrific tastes in gunong!

Thanks Charles. I have a couple of stinkers that I bought before I learned. They aren't in the picture. ;)

Steve

Great collection Steve! :)

Regards,
Detlef

Like!

Absolutely amazing collection Steve.

Best,
Robert

Happy New Year, Steve.
Thanks for sharing your fabulous collection.
Berk

A wonderful collection, which has me wanting an example of this type in my own collection.

Hey, Tito gunong!

I'm curious about one of the gunong you have here, as it looks similar to one I just purchased.

I've cropped your last pic to include just the one I'm curious about. Do you happen to have any more pictures of that one?

Thanks,
Leif

Wow.
 

Holy smokes! Absolutely beautiful, and fun to see together, like a big happy family. Thanks for sharing these.

Hello Leif,

I really like this "sort" of gunongs, also when they litterally not antique, to the currently understanding they are from the time frame of the 30th until 40th from the last century, still for use and wear. The bulgy section of the ferrule section is worked from alternating plates, materials are aluminium, black horn, white horn, coloured white horn and probable early plastics like bakelite.
Here are pictures of: my example, a bigger picture of Tito Gunong's example and of one with MOP pommel which went once by ebay for big money.

Regards,
Detlef

Hello Leif,

think you have bought this nice example. :) ;)

Haha! Yes, that is it. You must have been the other bidder.
I'm hoping to get some pictures this weekend of this one, and another gunong I recently purchased.

And thank you very much for these pics. I had thought that 30s - 40s was about right. I am a bit surprised at how massive it is though!

Thanks,
Leif

Also, for size comparison, here's a couple of photos of the new one with my small gunong family.

Have fun,
Leif

No, I wasn't. I was waiting that the seller go down with it's price but think that the time is gone to get one like your example cheaper as the price you paid. :shrug:

Regards,
Detlef