Indonesian sword ID request

milandro · 26th March 2023, 03:37 PM

nice to hear that you also share buying something an a learning opportunity.

I too do that, and my collector's prowess isn't such that I can call myself an expert specialist when I am rather more a generalist.

I think it was unavoidable that many layers of colonial experiences ( some within Asia itself) left many superimpositions of culture and weapons were no different than anything else.

As for the name, that has to be taken with a large pinch of salt and Portugis may have simple meant " foreign" within this context. I just saw a video of a guy (who has hundreds of videos, and at some point he grabs a Dutch Klewang (could have been a 1811 Hembrug) and calls it a " Portuguese weapon"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdvsVqh2aws

So maybe this is as Portuguis a weapon as Turkeys are from Turkey... not.

Nevertheless the way is the goal!

26th March 2023, 03:37 PM	#6
milandro Member Join Date: Jan 2022 Location: Netherlands Posts: 492	nice to hear that you also share buying something an a learning opportunity. I too do that, and my collector's prowess isn't such that I can call myself an expert specialist when I am rather more a generalist. I think it was unavoidable that many layers of colonial experiences ( some within Asia itself) left many superimpositions of culture and weapons were no different than anything else. As for the name, that has to be taken with a large pinch of salt and Portugis may have simple meant " foreign" within this context. I just saw a video of a guy (who has hundreds of videos, and at some point he grabs a Dutch Klewang (could have been a 1811 Hembrug) and calls it a " Portuguese weapon" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdvsVqh2aws So maybe this is as Portuguis a weapon as Turkeys are from Turkey... not. Nevertheless the way is the goal!