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Old 22nd March 2009, 09:13 AM   #10
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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
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