Just another moro....

[Flavio]

I always loved this hilt with rattan bands and this one shows also a nice laminated blade with some kind of "wootz" sections. What is? cristallin structure of the iron? Also the cacatooa pommel was made by a nice banati (?) wood

Flavio

[G. McCormack]

Nice piece,

That looks like exposed crystal structure visible from heavy etching. Wrought iron will often look very similar to this.

[Battara]

Nice puppy and complete. Yes not unheard of at all to have a crystalline pattern to the metal. Not wootz, but certainy crystalline structure. I had a budiak spear with a similar section to it (I think VVV has it now.).

Looks like the scabbard is missing 3 brass bands....

[Flavio]

Looks like the scabbard is missing 3 brass bands....

Thank you guys!

Jose, you have a sharp eye :D The scabbard had lost sme bands, that in original were made of brass, as the one on the bottom but in a second time were substituted by rattan stripes that were lost again. I will restore when I have some times ;)