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					Originally Posted by G. McCormack
					
				 Somebody correct me here, because to me this plainly looks like a mandau or other parang blade, 19th century. Am I crazy? | 
	
 Dear sir,
I will place some better pictures and then you all can shoot at it :-)
Re: Mandau
If you refering to the swords from Borneo  Mandau(langgi tinggan,pasir) , baieng, duku, malab, malat and Parang Ilang.
the blades look similar but they all have one main (different) characteristic:  one side is ball shaped and the other side hollow shaped. also they don't have ricasso's of this type.
maybe I follow the total wrong track so Im looking forward to your replies/evidence posted, on the the pictures.
best regards from Holland