Forum: Keris Swap Forum
23rd September 2024, 03:52 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th September 2024, 10:54 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th September 2024, 10:44 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th September 2024, 09:28 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th September 2024, 04:23 PM
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Here another specimen, quite elaborated Pamor,...
Here another specimen, quite elaborated Pamor, yet also kind of typical - a twisted rod (?) in the upper third, two twisted rods in the middle. Perhaps there was some different kind of a twisted rod...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th September 2024, 08:02 AM
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Thank you very much for your opinion!
A...
Thank you very much for your opinion!
A question - as I understand, the work with twisted damascene bars died out in Caucasus after probably at latest 1860. Was it done longer in Turkey/Trabzon...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th September 2024, 06:40 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th September 2024, 06:34 PM
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Kindjal with Gurian-Adjarian type blade
For viewing pleasure a Kindjal with Gurian-Adjarian type blade, with twisted damascene rods in the grooves. Likely somebody was keen to collect the bit of gold from the maker's stamps on the blade....
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
11th September 2024, 10:49 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th September 2024, 08:01 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th September 2024, 12:05 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
6th September 2024, 08:36 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th August 2024, 07:34 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th August 2024, 06:36 PM
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Well, there are perhaps Moro blades too dressed...
Well, there are perhaps Moro blades too dressed as Malay Sundang, but there are also genuine Malay Sundang with Asang-Asang. May be it's true for a later period, but to say, Malay Sundang never had...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
19th August 2024, 12:41 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
19th August 2024, 05:18 AM
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Alan, I think we got stuck again. In my #12 I...
Alan, I think we got stuck again. In my #12 I attached a picture of this blade (of course I am speaking about the blade of Hugh), where pamor lines run diagonally across the odo-odo, a feature, which...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
18th August 2024, 11:10 PM
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Detlef,
this kind of carved crosspiece...
Detlef,
this kind of carved crosspiece actually lets me quite indefferent, because it is outside of my area of interest. What upsets me, is, when somebody says, it is "late 19th to early 20th...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
18th August 2024, 10:36 PM
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Alan,
with "Gedhegan work" I mean the...
Alan,
with "Gedhegan work" I mean the process for creating Pamor Wusing Wutah Gedhegan.
Sorry, the Pamor on this blade cannot be Wusing Wutah Gedhegan, and one of the indicators are the Pamor...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
18th August 2024, 04:47 PM
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Just a few observations using one picture.
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Just a few observations using one picture.
In the overall view picture of the blade I have marked 4 places, where we see, how the frequencies of segments (defined by gedhegan work or by twists, or...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th August 2024, 04:19 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
18th August 2024, 03:48 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
17th August 2024, 06:25 PM
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Detlef,
just, when David posted his Keris...
Detlef,
just, when David posted his Keris noting the similarities, my fingers itched to disclose the differences, sorry for that!
The sheath from publication is similar only in that the...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
17th August 2024, 02:48 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
17th August 2024, 01:05 PM
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Alan, thank you for giving me the honour of a...
Alan, thank you for giving me the honour of a detailed response, which I much appreciate.
I don't think the matter here is as simple as manipulated Wos Wutah.
In the picture with three blue...
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Forum: Keris Swap Forum
16th August 2024, 11:21 PM
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