Strange sumatran?? dagger

[kai]

Hello Séverin,

You're welcome!

it's not a hole but the rest of a hook for the belt (and that was probably a little longer before) .

Uuuh, the horrid third dimension...

That's a quite unusual feature, especially with small daggers!

The maximum thickness of the base blade (juste before brass gard) is 5.3mm and 1.9mm at 1cm from the tip.

Less than I expected. Well within the range of Moro punal/gunong - neither the blade nor the scabbard support such an origin though.

Whether this really got adapted from a tombak might only be seen after disassembling the piece and possibly etching the blade; of course, there is no need to do so...

Regards,
Kai