Show us your Dua Lalan

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by Gustav

Detlef, they surely wanted items of best quality from your collection. Just out of curiosity - did you already had the same kind of items of similar quality in your collection as the ones you gave them?

Hello Gustav,

I was only reasonably wealthy for a short time, I didn't want to see my children grow up in a rented apartment on a main road, so I bought a house and was therefore constantly forced to sell top pieces from my collection. The problem of a single earner! All the pieces shown in this exhibition which came from my collection are now in one prominent collection. To answer your question, no, I haven't been able to purchase any comparable pieces since then.
The pieces are shown by the pics.

And here the threads where I have shown them before:
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ighlight=Timor
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ghlight=taiwan
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ghlight=taiwan
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...highlight=nias

Regards,
Detlef

[Gustav]

Detlef,

you are a very good husband and father. I can't yet imagine myself parting with pieces of such quality.

Regards,
Gustav

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by Gustav

you are a very good husband and father. I can't yet imagine myself parting with pieces of such quality.

Thank you very much Gustav!

[Gustav]

Here another specimen, quite elaborated Pamor, yet also kind of typical - a twisted rod (?) in the upper third, two twisted rods in the middle. Perhaps there was some different kind of a twisted rod at the edge, but it has vanished. Additionally a Batu Lapak, only on the "inner" side of blade.

Blade length - 44 cm.

[Sajen]

Very nice complete example!

[Gustav]

Thank you, Detlef!

I really can only admire the work of the blacksmith who made it. So many tricky welds, and not one significant cold shut.

[JeffS]

Also nice to see these with the bone inlay intact. Thank you for sharing.