Junggayan Kris

[Spunjer]

Spunger, Agree that the straight gangya line means a really old blade; for the few really old blades I have the gangya is very narrow (this one is thick) & the file work is minimal on the guard side, as well, fully defined curves rather than waves. My guess is that the multi-waves didn't start untill late 18thC/early 19thC.

hi bill; thanks for that tidbit.
when you wrote "...its horn because of the defined edges on it", could you please elaborate on that one? reason being is, i have this one sword and i'm having a hard time determining whether its some type of wood or carabao horn, although the hand guard i'm pretty sure is carabao horn.

that postcard's pretty cool. wow, can't imagine how i would react if i walk in on an antique store like that. prolly like a cat stumbling on a catnip, lol. must be an antique shop in manila before wwII. funny thing is, those chinese vases are still popular in the antique shops over there...