A spanish-mexican type large bowie knife ?

[Marius66]

For comparison,
I found this ''similar'' one , the central piece , in another old post about klewangs/kalewangs and the regulation models

[francantolin]

Hello,
TJIBAT simply for TJIBATOE... 😁

[milandro]

thanks to the better pictures and the detective work on Tjbatoe look very conclusive to me.

[Marius66]

Thank you ! Really precise !!

What can we say about the age ??

[milandro]

Originally Posted by Marius66

Thank you ! Really precise !!

What can we say about the age ??

I don't know that anybody can say precisely but a great number of these Indonesian made weapons came in the '50 of last century

[Marius66]

Hello,
I finally received it,

Here some pictures, an heavy model, 800 gramms
/ 1,75 pounds just for the small sword/machete .

For the dates , I read that these ''VOC dutch models'' were made until 1920 but sure, it looks more something WW2
( reminds me Aldo Raine's bowie knife in the movie Unglourious bastards... )

The steel is good

[Marius66]

I wonder if the handle is more bone, ivory or any celluloid...
One side cracked when I cleaned it with just a little water/soap

[milandro]

the VOC no longer existed by this time and this is certainly not inspired to the time it existed, this type of knives made there always had bone hilts