Something New

[Robert]

Thank you Jose for the information and for confirming that this is a tenegre. Like I stated earlier I have never seen one with a blade in this style. I am really looking forward for this to arrive so I can find out how many silver and brass plates that there are on the hilt. The second picture down on the left seems to indicate that there could be quite a few. I am also very interested in the throat piece on the scabbard and if this sword has a guard or not.


Robert

[migueldiaz]

Hello. Yes, it's a tenegre (pronounced, tee-NEE-greh).

Nacho is the expert on this. Earlier, he told us that --

"The Iloilo Museum has identified 5 hilt variants of the Panay sword: 1) the classic short nose tenegre (found all over lowland Panay); 2) the long-nosed sanduko of the Panay Bukidnons/Mundo; 3) the Open Mouth/crocodile Mouth pommel (made until now in Antique, particularly the town of Adiong), which some people say is Negros (it is not); 4) the human monster face with large eyes and menacing teeth ,sometimes made of bone (made in the vicinity of Cabatuan, Iloilo; and : 5) the plain rounded/pistol grip found in binangons from Iloilo Province (older ones made of carabao horn). [item] 1) has a sub-variant that looks like it has two horns in addition to the short nose."

As to what they look like, I've blogged about them here(1), here(2), here(3), here(4), and here(5).

The variant of (1), the three-horned fellow, is here.

[Sajen]

Hello Robert,

let me add that it is a beautiful sword and I hope that you will post better pictures when you received it.

Regards,

Detlef

[Robert]

Migueldiaz, Thank you for your interest and for the links that you posted. I am a very frequent viewer of your web site and had already seen all of the information that you referred to in the links. I was just concerned because of the blade shape that this sword might be a variant and have a different name. Again my thanks for your help.


Detlef, Thank you for your kind words and I will be more than happy to post more pictures of this sword as soon as it arrives and I have a little time to clean it up a bit.

Again, my thanks to everyone who has commented on this and for all their help.

P.S.
Nacho, If you have the time I would really like to have your thoughts on this piece.

Robert

[Robert]

Well the tenegre has arrived with a few nice surprises.
All of the decorative fittings on the hilt are silver except for the guard and
it seems to be a brass alloy of some kind. There are quite a
few of the silver decorations on the hilt missing but for everyone that is missing
the corresponding one is still intact. The decorations on the scabbard
are mostly brass with a few being made of silver and I believe the missing
band at the throat of the scabbard would have been made of silver. The wood
of the scabbard has shrunk so much over the years that
the guard will not fit into place anymore and the brass bands are very loose
and are just put into place for the pictures. It looks like I will be
busy for quite some time making the missing pieces of silver
decorations for the hilt and scabbard but it will be time well spent.
Sorry about the poor picture quality.

Robert

[Lew]

Sweeeet... Congrats

[migueldiaz]

She is beautiful! Congrats, Robert.

I love looking at these well-adorned pieces. You can tell that the original owner was an important person, or perhaps simply dapper, if not flamboyant