Is this a Batangas piece?

zelbone · 4th November 2006, 02:38 AM

Hi Ian!
Well since those swords I posted aren't pointed I didn't want to call them matulis.....which means pointed in tagalog.

Tabak is the term I've heard referred to these types, but could also describe other blade forms. Sticking with tagalog I probably also would have just called them itak, or if I was in Batangas, gulok. But Luzon sandata isn't my specialty. Tabak possibly could have been derived from tobacco...Tabacalara is the largest cigar manufacturer in the Philippines ( the 1881 Robusto reminds me of a Partagas #10.)

Zel

Battara · 22nd November 2006, 08:15 PM

Finally, here are pictures of my now Pampangan piece. Hilt is brass with some zinc(?) or greenish metal in the spiral. Somewhat laminated, the brass flower/sun is on the butt (not on mine

) and the leather sheath has shrunk over the years and no longer completely fits the blade.

Thanks for all your help.

22nd November 2006, 08:15 PM	#2
Battara EAAF Staff Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Louisville, KY Posts: 7,272	Finally, here are pictures of my now Pampangan piece. Hilt is brass with some zinc(?) or greenish metal in the spiral. Somewhat laminated, the brass flower/sun is on the butt (not on mine ) and the leather sheath has shrunk over the years and no longer completely fits the blade. Thanks for all your help. Attached Images

4th November 2006, 02:38 AM	#1
zelbone Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: VISAYAS and MINDANAO Posts: 169	Hi Ian! Well since those swords I posted aren't pointed I didn't want to call them matulis.....which means pointed in tagalog. Tabak is the term I've heard referred to these types, but could also describe other blade forms. Sticking with tagalog I probably also would have just called them itak, or if I was in Batangas, gulok. But Luzon sandata isn't my specialty. Tabak possibly could have been derived from tobacco...Tabacalara is the largest cigar manufacturer in the Philippines ( the 1881 Robusto reminds me of a Partagas #10.) Zel