S.E.A? sword

[Maurice]

Originally Posted by Sajen

Hello, here my honest collection of pade, the second one from up is for sure from Ceram, so I doubt that we can give a clear indication of the origin from the form of the handle.

I agree but not fully. I think the handles could be from Celebes or the Moluccas, but the more plain ones like Daves and the one I owned, possibly are from the Moluccan.

Also the pade you bought from Willem has a better blade as the others, which also indicates (IMO) that the last one is from Celebes. The other three blades are much more simple forged as the last one you have.

Nice collection of pades by the way!

At the other hand it would be hard to place them to a certain region, as it's the Celebes or Moluccan Alfur's who used them.


Maurice