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Have bought this Visayan bolo, first you may think that it is a talibon but I think that the blade form is different. It has a chisel ground edge but the bend after the bevel isn't so strong like by a talibon. After some research I found this older thread: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ghlight=pinuti and I think both bolos are very similar and also the age of both could be in the same frame. Hopeful that it isn't a early tourist item but the blade seems to be good worked.
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Interesting pinuti. I don't think that this is a tourist item - the scabbard carving looks too good and old to my eyes.
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I think it may be a tourist item. Seems concurrent with all those "Philippines" scabbards and Army bring back talibongs. I had one like it long ago.
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OK looking at the blade it is a Pinute, it is Garab. Have several in my collection.
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I guess when I think of talibon/garab, I think of larger blades (and older ones with slightly curved spines as well).
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Agree with you Jose, Garabs are the big ones, look post #3 in this thread: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ighlight=garab
Talibons are the smaller and more simple ones for every day use. But my question would be if we can classify the one in question still as talibon? |
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The piece looks like a post war maybe 1940s Army bring Garab knife. It is missing the unit crest for the WW-2 souvenir types and cord belt.There are slight differences seen between the Talibon and Garab knives. The big blades it it easier to tell. One of the great challenges is that some local maker makes the blade to what they think it should look like. Many blades were made on Luzon to represent those from other regions. Batangas does the same thing today.
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Sajen I have noticed that garab and talibon seem interchangeable.
Filamfighter1, although I don't think this is a tourist piece, I do agree that it may have been made for use during WWII. I believe that usually the better the carving the earlier the pieceay be as a general rule of thumb. |
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