Help with the Moro Kris/Kalis/Sundang

[Interested Party]

Originally Posted by Ian

Hi Detlef,

Thanks! I posted my last comment in the middle of the night (my time) during a period of insomnia.
My apologies IP.

Ian.

No worries. I am glad your insomnia is more productive than mine. I am sorry that I can't give you dimensions of the last blade. I have been preoccupied with adulting lately and it slipped through my fingers. It was for sale in the US.

I had read the thread you linked earlier but had forgotten where to find the information it contained. Thank you for refreshing my memory.

I really appreciate everyone taking the time to respond to this thread. The concrete examples are really helping me to "see" these objects more clearly. I wanted to create a thread that brough together many of the elements of the Kalis that had been discussed recently into one thread with many examples to give myself and other readers repetition in recognizing features and what slight variations signified. Ian, is the longer gandik you speak of in relation to Malaysian manufacture/influence the same as what Cato called cross over type?

I asked the question on conservation because I had noticed blades of this level of corrosion being gently reshaped before resale, then etched to hide the loss of patination, and I wondered about the ethics of this process.