A Paiwan knife on Ebay

[yuanzhumin]

Well, I also found my own treasure recently, and I found it on…Ebay.
The knife was mislabeled (a kris… from the Philippines…), and it was not placed in the right category. See : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWAX:IT
To be more exact, one of our eminent forum members attracted my attention to this item. In addition, as the Ebay seller was restricting the sale only to the USA, I asked the help of another friend in the States: he managed to buy it for me, and he resent it to me in China. I’m very grateful to these two gentlemen : without their help, this whole thing wouldn’t have been possible. Thanks, R and M.
The result is a nice, old and authentic Paiwan knife coming out of nowhere and joining my collection. Nevertheless, it didn’t come cheap. I guess the only other bidder (may be someone from this forum – if it is, sorry for this !) knew exactly what it was and the real value of this rare knife.
I just received it, and I attached here some other pictures.