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Originally Posted by Moshah

Hi Detlef,

You mean, the gold is originally and purposely being applied overlay the ganja like that?

Or was it overlayed because the original kinatah gold are missing there? Was that is the real purpose of the overlaying?

Hi Moshah,

yes, I think that this is original. What I have seen until now is that the way of kinatah work on Sumatra is different than on Java or Bali. Look for example my blade in the link in up. Here a picture from the Sumatra blade where all gold is missing, you can see how the gold have been affixed before. And a second picture of an very old Madura blade with kinatah.

Detlef

Sorry, the first picture is the Madura blade and the second the Sumatra.