keris with prussian hanger hilt

[rumpel9]

Hi, everyone.
Some time ago I bought interesting keris with hilt from prussian infantery habger. Keris blade has very good quality, you can see at the pics.
Before I have seen keris blade with european plug bayonet hilt in Stocholm Royal Museum of Arms (bottom pic). At the museums catalog it specified as a keris.
It would be very intersting to see comments about it from forum members.

[Rick]

They both look like nice blades .
We have seen keris blades re-hilted in the European style before, but this is the first plug bayonet hilted keris blade I have seen .

[David]

They do both look like nice blades. Not something that i would find very interesting for my own collection, but i can see why they might attract others.
Also a shame that the Prussian hilted one has the hilt attached backwards to the usual usage of the blade. Makes it even less appealing to me, i'm afraid. :shrug: :)

[A. G. Maisey]

Well, I thought I'd seen everything.

[maxbliss888]

With the hilt attached backward, it seems that the person who fixed it are not familiar with using Keris as a weapon...