Sumatran sword

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Hi Dajak,

Thanks. However, I thought though the blade may a bit like a mandau, but there are quite a number of klewang form in Sumatra which also looks like this. Hence, when I first looked at it, I thought it was N. Sumatran. The hilt convinced me otherwise.

I was informed of a closed ebay auction (by a fellow forumnite - Derreck) for a parang nabur. Hope Derreck does not mind me attaching the picture for discussion purpose.

I noticed that the D-guard in the picture is attached to a white brass nail that seemed to be hammered into the pommel. My parang nabur's hilt had no traces of such a nail insertion. Is it that not all D-guards for parang nabur ends up being nailed to the pommel?