[Tim Simmons]

Finally here. Very interesting sword club. Too me the timber looks rather exotic. I think I might have been very lucky that it past customs {wood with a Brazil postage mark}. Dense heavy hard wood with an unusual colour. Now the Amazon collection is growing the regional styles are starting to be apparent. The club is 93cm long and the main part is 4cm x 3cm with a two hand grip. It is rather like a heavy bokken without a curve. Not old but clearly not new either, the distal end has been it contact with the ground through use as a walking staff. As this type of material is not "antique" and little understood while market demand is low it is not expensive. I have to ask as the Krikati is some low thousands of soles, who else has one? and how common? The geometric form is curious and the precision around the pommel is nice. It has the look of a constructivist sculpture with pure form and geometric clean lines.