Just to enliven Subsaharian dimension of the forum

[Martin Lubojacky]

Hello,
Below I am posting two Konda swords - just for pleasure. Both have nicely forged, profiled blade. The ceremonial sword is light and relatively thin, but still nicely hammered out. The fighting one is very heavy version, thickness of the blade is 7 mm at the base. My age guess is 75 - 100 years for both.
Martin

[Sajen]

Very nice Martin! And very nice processed. :)

Regards,
Detlef

[Martin Lubojacky]

Thank you Detlef,
As a set it is nice/interesting, because of a big differences (heavy fighting form with big handle against light ceremonial form) on one sight and a very simmilar featrures (same basic design and hammering) on the other side.

There was a lot of work with. The blackening on the cereminial sword is still original, On the fighting form I had to "help" with blackening set for guns... I also used solution of tannin to preserve it at least for a fev next years

[Battara]

So the top one is ceremonial, right?

[Martin Lubojacky]

The top is ceremonial sword (allegedly used by women), but later this forms were also produced for tourists