Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Another strange, non-textbook, parang

Tim Simmons · 17th December 2005, 09:25 PM

This knife is quite different from the parangs but again we see this distinctive wood. We need a botanist, especially when looking at island flora. This knife, I have cleaned but not heavily, I suspect was brought back to the UK after the Malay emergency

and brief war with Indonesia. Tim

17th December 2005, 09:25 PM	#10
Tim Simmons Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: What is still UK Posts: 5,842	This knife is quite different from the parangs but again we see this distinctive wood. We need a botanist, especially when looking at island flora. This knife, I have cleaned but not heavily, I suspect was brought back to the UK after the Malay emergency and brief war with Indonesia. Tim Attached Images