help with stamp in kampilan-blade!

[Maurice]

Hi all,

I just came back from a visit of a friend who had a nice kampilan with a stamp in the blade.
It was stamped from both sides near the handle with WCCO? (if I am not mistaken).
I know of barongblades which are made in china were signed with chinese marks. But I never saw a kampilan blade with stamp.
Anyone knows anything about the WCCO-mark?

Unfortunately no pics yet!

Regards,
Maurice

[Gavin Nugent]

If my memory serves me well there was another mention of this mark by a member last year or there abouts, it was a brass handled shamshir looking sword that was found on ebay. At the time is was thought to be a WOOO mark.

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...highlight=WOOO

Gav

[Maurice]

Originally Posted by freebooter

If my memory serves me well there was another mention of this mark by a member last year or there abouts, it was a brass handled shamshir looking sword that was found on ebay. At the time is was thought to be a WOOO mark.

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...highlight=WOOO

Gav

Thanks Gav for the reply.
I sent Hans an email to put some pics in this thread.

It could be the same mark on the thread you refers to.

Regards,
Maurice

[kai]

Hello Maurice,

I just came back from a visit of a friend who had a nice kampilan with a stamp in the blade.

Any signs of lamination?

Not too long ago there was a kampilan on offer with LONDON stamped at the base of the blade (I'll try to post a pic). Seems like European companies exported blades close enough to local specifications that these ended up in genuine ethnographic pieces.

Anyone knows anything about the WCCO-mark?

Could the last be 0 (zero) rather than O? From the pic on the other thread, I believe that the middle letters were not O (maybe C, maybe something else...).

Regards,
Kai

[Maurice]

Originally Posted by kai

Any signs of lamination?

Not too long ago there was a kampilan on offer with LONDON stamped at the base of the blade (I'll try to post a pic). Seems like European companies exported blades close enough to local specifications that these ended up in genuine ethnographic pieces.

Hello Kai, it could be that there is lamination. But I am not sure. I asked him to take some pics which will be pasted in this thread.

Originally Posted by kai

Could the last be 0 (zero) rather than O? From the pic on the other thread, I believe that the middle letters were not O (maybe C, maybe something else...)..

It could be a zero but I am not sure. But I meant I certain had seen a C and not the O like in WOOO

But the mark in the thread Gav refers to seems like the same mark. Only in the kampilan I saw clearly 2 C's in the middle!

I'll come back with pics on this one!

Kind regards,
Maurice

[Maurice]

Here are the pics of the whole kampilan, and also of the stamp ofcourse.

When I look at the stamp in the other thread Gav referred to, I see the same spaces between each lettres. So to me it is exactly the same lettres stamped in the blades.

[Rick]

So I threw it into the search machine thingy and here's what I got :

http://www.watertownhistory.org/Arti...Blacksmith.htm
See the last line .
Seems like it was a fairly large Mfr.
Could also fit the time frame; pre-40's WC CO stamped on the blade as noted .

Soo, the Kampilan blade *could* be a remanufactured machete or implement .

No ?

[Henk]

I think you hit the nail right on the head, Rick.
Well done!!

[Maurice]

Originally Posted by Rick

So I threw it into the search machine thingy and here's what I got :

http://www.watertownhistory.org/Arti...Blacksmith.htm

Thanks Rick!

Next time I'll use the search machine first!

But now everyone nows were WC CO is standing for! And not the WOOO!!!

Kind regards,
Maurice

[Rick]

Hi Henk and Maurice, it may be so .
The only glitch here is that Washington Cutlery didn't export *as far as I know* ,but that doesn't mean that their implements weren't carried abroad by American Soldiers/Adventurers/Planters .