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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Germany, Dortmund
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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 |
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Centerville, Kansas
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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.
![]() 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 |
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Centerville, Kansas
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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 |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: East Coast USA
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Sweeeet... Congrats
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#5 |
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Manila, Phils.
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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 ![]() |
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Manila, Phils.
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This sword (below) from the same island of Panay (or perhaps Negros?), has a somewhat similar guard design.
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#7 |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Louisville, KY
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Very nice Robert and nice clean up.
Migueldiaz - nice piece also - not seen it before. |
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