Crowns on Aceh weapons revisited

[erikscollectables]

Originally Posted by Maurice

Hi Erik,
which seem not to be that rare when looking at your image...

Hihi - as I do not have any without crowns you would almost think so....

The question is how rare they are. I would guess that orignally only about 1 in a 100 rencong would have had golden triple crowns - maybe less. The story still is that adat prescribed these golden crowns to be worn by nobility and local leadership (panglima's etc).

[Maurice]

Originally Posted by erikscollectables

Hihi - as I do not have any without crowns you would almost think so....

Let's say what Ben (Dajak) had with the very rare "pakayuns", you have with Atjeh "golden crowns".
So many of those rare items in quantity and also in quality, that it will look for "non-collectors" like they are not rare..