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Old 16th June 2015, 04:09 PM   #1
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Hi, everyone.
Some time ago I bought interesting keris with hilt from prussian infantery habger. Keris blade has very good quality, you can see at the pics.
Before I have seen keris blade with european plug bayonet hilt in Stocholm Royal Museum of Arms (bottom pic). At the museums catalog it specified as a keris.
It would be very intersting to see comments about it from forum members.
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Old 17th June 2015, 02:36 PM   #2
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They both look like nice blades .
We have seen keris blades re-hilted in the European style before, but this is the first plug bayonet hilted keris blade I have seen .
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Old 17th June 2015, 05:09 PM   #3
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They do both look like nice blades. Not something that i would find very interesting for my own collection, but i can see why they might attract others.
Also a shame that the Prussian hilted one has the hilt attached backwards to the usual usage of the blade. Makes it even less appealing to me, i'm afraid.
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Old 17th June 2015, 10:55 PM   #4
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Well, I thought I'd seen everything.
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Old 18th June 2015, 07:50 AM   #5
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With the hilt attached backward, it seems that the person who fixed it are not familiar with using Keris as a weapon...
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