cocos island knives are back

[ausjulius]

cocos island knives are back
i found this one form a recent auction in new zealand. and in fact there is another in an australian auction that looks like it might just be one as well
also in the 50s or 60s the cocos islands issued stamps with blacksmiths shown on the stamps . considering the agricultural nature of the plantation island there must have been busy that combined with the troops during the war..



we should really just call some office on the east island there and see if any of the local malays know who made this stuff
there is about 600 malays there so somebody should probably know immediately who the blacksmith family use to be.

[ausjulius]

sorry for those not familiar the cocos/keeling island golok or knife is the one in the top with a very distinct style. if you search cocos knife or keeling knife you should find more pics.

[Sajen]

Where is the picture?

[Rick]

Ausjulius, you need to upload your pictures directly to this site.

Thanks.

[Ian]

ausjulius:

There is a recent summary of what this site has to offer about the Keeling-Cocos knives here.

Ian

[Ian]

Photobucket now charges $400.00 for pics uploaded to their site to be hosted on third party servers! That is probably why the pic shown by ausjulius (I suspect one of mine) is showing that error message--I refuse to pay that amount simply to enable third party hosting which previously had been permitted free!

I have downloaded my pics from that site and post them directly here. The original thread that had these pics was posted more than a decade ago, before the policy on directly loading files to this site came into operation. All the more reason to have the pics posted here for future reference.

Ian.

[ausjulius]

Originally Posted by Sajen

Where is the picture?

hmm i did .. it vanished... ill try again should be up there no. thanks

[Rich]

Ian and all -

Try using Imgur as a photo posting site. Free.

Rich