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Another Klewang Palembang for our Archives

27th January 2014, 12:22 PM

CharlesS

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Quote:

Originally Posted by kai

I agree this is a status piece - still fully functional though. The business examples I've seen come with horn hilts of the same style.

Kai,

This may look fully functional, but practically it is not. The heavy blade combined with the narrow hilt of ivory with a weak gold bolster could not take many serious blows.

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