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Originally Posted by milandro
forgive my ignorance, but is is this not a Javanese Pedang Lurus ?
We see a fair amount of such blades in there Netherlands.
If this is what I think it is the blade is not a repurposed kris blade but a specially made blade, slightly curved and the only similarity is the pamor (which is not unique to krises)
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nope, it is not
the dress is clearly Lombok, and the hilt is of Garuda Mungkur type, though heavily stylized to obscure the "animal shape" and to look more floral
and pedang lurus is truly odd name, as it was literally means "straight sword"
we did not use the terms "pedang lurus" here ... I think it was a mistranslation somewhere when Indonesian sword terminology got there
Javanese basically knew two type of swords, called pedang sabet (slashing sword) and pedang suduk (stabbing sword)