A Borneo Oddity

asomotif · 12th March 2012, 11:45 PM

News travels fast in this small collectors world... i am a bit astonished too

Lookslike this thread is meeting its end.

Indianajones · 13th March 2012, 01:39 PM

If am allowed to reply VERY shortly; 1. have not had a negative feedback on ebay in two years! 2. besides a few fakes (on ebay)I do also sell very good n rare authentic items! Also to satisfied forumites!

Thread; have checked the RMV museumcollection but havent found anything similar. Tropenmuseumcollection online was too slow for my lack of patience.

It does seem that Murut handle ferrules and Bidayuh ferrules are often quite alike.
>> unless I find a very similar sword I will restrain from replying on this thread for obvious reasons.

VVV · 13th March 2012, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Indianajones

It does seem that Murut handle ferrules and Bidayuh ferrules are often quite alike.

No,
quite often the Bidayuh do not have ferrules at all, sometimes they have quite plain.
However, now and then they have the neighboring Melanau people, famous for their silver skills, do their ferrules for them. The examples with the silver ferrules in this thread (Dajak's Latok and my silver sangkit) seems to be Melanau. Actually the latok from Dajak might even be Melanau all together, which means nothing Bidayuh at all. Usually the Melanau latok sadap are much larger than the Bidayuh and have a couple of other tells on how to know which is which (being outside the focus of this thread).

Michael

David · 13th March 2012, 06:56 PM

Gentlemen! If the insinuations and accusations continue to fly on this thread we WILL close it down....which would be unfortunate and certainly unfair to Charles as he seeks info about this very interesting sword.
If anyone has a legitimate complaint against any other member here the proper channel would be to bring that complain, with substantial evidence, privately to the attention of the moderation staff. The airing of dirty laundry will not be tolerated in the open forums. Thank you.

13th March 2012, 06:56 PM	#4
David Keris forum moderator Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 7,250	Not Here Boys! Gentlemen! If the insinuations and accusations continue to fly on this thread we WILL close it down....which would be unfortunate and certainly unfair to Charles as he seeks info about this very interesting sword. If anyone has a legitimate complaint against any other member here the proper channel would be to bring that complain, with substantial evidence, privately to the attention of the moderation staff. The airing of dirty laundry will not be tolerated in the open forums. Thank you.

12th March 2012, 11:45 PM	#1
asomotif Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 2,237	News travels fast in this small collectors world... i am a bit astonished too Lookslike this thread is meeting its end.

13th March 2012, 01:39 PM	#2
Indianajones Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 180	If am allowed to reply VERY shortly; 1. have not had a negative feedback on ebay in two years! 2. besides a few fakes (on ebay)I do also sell very good n rare authentic items! Also to satisfied forumites! Thread; have checked the RMV museumcollection but havent found anything similar. Tropenmuseumcollection online was too slow for my lack of patience. It does seem that Murut handle ferrules and Bidayuh ferrules are often quite alike. >> unless I find a very similar sword I will restrain from replying on this thread for obvious reasons.