badik with gold

[La Pagaru]

Originally Posted by kai

Hello Andi,

Thanks for your efforts!

I'd like to post some of my badik, too. (Need to take decent pics though...)

Looks like molten gold did got poured on the blade (probably a quicksilver alloy with high proportion of gold?). I never saw this with early-collected examples from European musea or old collections though - any idea how old this tradition might be?

Regards,
Kai

thanks kai

are u see my new email? i send u translete a manuskrip

regrads LP