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13th September 2023, 09:23 PM | #1 | |
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Like myself! I never have recognized them until Xasterix bring them to attention in this thread: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ghlight=keping I can't answer the question if kepings are older blades or if they occur after 1900, maybe Xasterix can answer this. Regards, Detlef |
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14th September 2023, 12:56 PM | #2 |
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David,
Two of mine at the bottom of post #7 in this thread are late 20th C items from Tugaya (Lake Lanao region). The seller purchased them in Zamboanga, but referenced the Maranao city of Tugaya as the origin of them. I had originally thought, like most of us, that they were just fanciful recently made barung. I have several other keping examples that may date as far back as the 1940s but probably not pre-WWII. One was attributed to the Mandaya but is clearly of Moro manufacture with a brass hilt and scabbard. |
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