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This is an intriguing example I came across some months ago, but Moro not being my an area of particular expertise I wasn't sure if it was truly Moro or not, especially with the iron construction.
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Looking at Bathala's Moro cuirass again, I'm wondering why some of the plates do look pristine whereas others are visibly pitted. And the pitting not consistent with corrosion, but rather impact-caused, with so many round dimples reminiscent of what a person could inflict using a ball peen hammer with blows of varying intensity. Çan't help but notice, also, that those chain-mail rings look like they were made of machine-drawn wire, way too "industrial" in appearance, and free of wear or any past corrosion. Isn't this a bit incongruous for an ethnographic object made by hand with rudimentary tools, in a damp tropical milieu in which ferrous alloys corrode readily over time?
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...and they appear to be butted rings.
biting the bullet to expose the elephant in the room, it looks very new. cool tho. |
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interesting. will remember that.
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The perfect consistency of the wire rings and identically round holes without wear on either component alone tell me that this is not very old.
But the "pitting" on the plates is hammered texture. Regardless of age, a fair amount of handwork went into putting this together. It just is not very old. |
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