Aceh peudeung restored

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Originally Posted by Rick

There seems to be a pretty amazing similarity with most of the examples of this sword that I have seen; almost like they came from the same shop or manufacturer. The example I bought from Artzi has the original pad still installed. The only differences that I have seen are in the richness of the embellishments added

I would say the steel parts of the grip and guard (including langets) are highly standardized but not the rest of it (blade, pommel cap, cushion, decorative elements, scabbard).

I have two of them atm; one has a very nice, light, nimble blade with a triple fuller running into a single wide fuller that is otherwise quite similar to the one Detlef showed here, and a silver wire grip. The other has a bare steel grip and a fairly standard triple fullered saber blade like those found on 19th c nimchas and other swords. They look superficially similar, but they handle quite differently and they have quite different distal taper.