Too Tiny?

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by A.alnakkas

Thanks Detlef Wow lol and I thought I had a bad purchase :P

Trust me, you dont want a room reaching 35 degrees. Its 45 degrees outside, certainly lower than a few months ago when it reached as high as 56.

Lotfy

No, I don't need 45 degrees outside, but we have had 10 in the early morning and now only 15, too cold for me!

Detlef

[Indianajones]

I feel this 'material issue' is coming to a climax . . . . .! he he. On top of that I may come back from my opinion of it being bone as, when I look again at the pics- it could indeed be also tridacna.
Indeed I was not reverring to Santa's reindeer Thor but to the Philippine waterbuffalo called 'carabau' (as common with Phil. culture n items I assumed others know this term too).

Difficult to give directions/advise on this matter; can only say tridacna is like marblestone and bone would be alike very hard ebonywood (to give material comparisson).
Howabout this; tap the handle on glas n when it says 'TOK TOK' it is tridacna n when it does 'POK POK' its bone . . . . .
(not much of advise is it . .?!?!?)

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by Indianajones

Indeed I was not reverring to Santa's reindeer Thor but to the Philippine waterbuffalo called 'carabau' (as common with Phil. culture n items I assumed others know this term too).

I know this term as well, in Indonesia spelling/writing it is : kerbau

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by Indianajones

Difficult to give directions/advise on this matter; can only say tridacna is like marblestone and bone would be alike very hard ebonywood (to give material comparisson).
Howabout this; tap the handle on glas n when it says 'TOK TOK' it is tridacna n when it does 'POK POK' its bone . . . . .
(not much of advise is it . .?!?!?)

Hi Wouter,
I think the cold feel in hand is a certain indication, isn't it?

[A.alnakkas]

Detlef, I would love a 15C temperature haha! cant wait for winter.

Wouter, I tapped the hilt on a glass and it made a TOK sound. Was Tridacna used for bigger Moro stuff?

[Indianajones]

Personally I am going towards the opinion it is tridacna, although that would be -I think; though am not an expert on Visayan/moro- quite more special n interesting than bone/ivory.

Thor; 'The problem with onomatopoeia is the . . . . '
I like mine hot and with some ketchup pls?
Whatever the material is bone or tridacna I would really leave it and not burn or wax it; its looking lovely as it is n its just a matter of time to know its real material.

Actually tridacna is/can be quite breakable material and not much used for large or long items. If it falls on a hard floor it will break. I only know this material from New Guinea shellmoney rings (socalled 'yua') and have seen only few tridacna Indonesian kerishandles.

[Royston]

Gents

I have always thought that the larger of these is bone and the other is shell ( with the opalescence ). The "bone" looks very similar to Loftey's example. My two are quite different from each other.

Regards
Roy

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by Royston

Gents

I have always thought that the larger of these is bone and the other is shell ( with the opalescence ). The "bone" looks very similar to Loftey's example. My two are quite different from each other.

Regards
Roy

Hello Roy,

I think yours with the shell pommel isn't from Tridacna shell. Tridacna don't have this opalescence. At least I never have noticed this by Tridacna.

Regards,

Detlef