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Old 27th January 2005, 08:20 PM   #1
Hal Siegel
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Default Bolo with wide blade and t-grip for identification

I've run across a couple of these bolo - preliminary identification is/was Mandaya, but now that there have been more Mandaya items recently discussed here I don't think that's correct. It's a rather distinctive style -







Tom Hyle found this new example.

Here's one I had in my collection a couple of years ago, it went as a gift/swap to Conogre (who may still have it, I'm not sure):





Gotta love eBay seller ingenuity - when I found the Conogre chopper it had a bowling trophy finial on the tang spike:




We think this is the "original owner":



Any ideas on who/when/where?
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