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Old 26th July 2011, 08:18 AM   #1
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Question Sword with Eagle head and Ivory handle

I'm new to this, I need some help finding the origin of the sword I have bought on e-bay. There was a thread I followed back in 2009 about a similar find. Mine has an Eagle head and the handle seems to be Bone or Ivory with wire wrapped around it. The blade itself has VOC stamped on it as well as a sailing ship and the word Batavia inscribed.
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Old 26th July 2011, 10:16 AM   #2
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I'm new to this, I need some help finding the origin of the sword I have bought on e-bay. There was a thread I followed back in 2009 about a similar find. Mine has an Eagle head and the handle seems to be Bone or Ivory with wire wrapped around it. The blade itself has VOC stamped on it as well as a sailing ship and the word Batavia inscribed.
HI,
Can you upload pictures?
If not, then when did you buy it, are the pictures still on eBAy to look at?
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Old 28th July 2011, 05:34 AM   #3
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Is it similar to this one? The most notorious sword ever discussed on this board.

http://www.vikingsword.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000140.html

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P.S. For you Jim
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Old 28th July 2011, 07:56 AM   #4
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Run away! Run away! (Monty Python had it right!)
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Old 28th July 2011, 07:59 AM   #5
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Is it similar to this one? The most notorious sword ever discussed on this board.

http://www.vikingsword.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000140.html

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Hey Jeff,
Must admit that was my though too.
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Old 28th July 2011, 04:52 PM   #6
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Is the blade marked, dare I say it, Shaver Cool ?
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Old 28th July 2011, 07:40 PM   #7
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Is the blade marked, dare I say it, Shaver Cool ?
LOL....Not the shaver cool again!
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Old 29th July 2011, 01:40 AM   #8
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Is the blade marked, dare I say it, Shaver Cool ?

Auuughhhhh!!!! Nightmares....you have spoken the unspeakable LOL!

Coomagirl, please pardon our frivolity, but if you look at the classic threads under these words 'SHAVER KOOL' you will see why we all cringe. If you or anyone out there reading knows of a very old Abbott & Costello movie (cannot recall the title) but in a scene where they are jailed with a delerious miscreant, he recounts the tale that led to his ending up there. He tells of an event where upon hearing the name of a river...pocoloco....he suddenly is crazed and strangles the person he sees next to him...and how he strangled his partner. He heard the word pocoloco......and 'slowly I turned....step by step..inch by inch...I placed my fingers around his neck!!!'

Then the comic two began asking questions, but every time Abbott said pocoloco, the derelict roared and grabbed Costello by the neck, chanting, step by step etc etc. He would suddenly relent...with Costello gasping...then Abbott would say it again, with Costello pleading for him to stop saying it!

The 'SHAVER KOOL' thread seemed neverending, going on for years, with the same relentless anguish and indeed...became a legend of the forums.

We're all experiencing that conditioned response accordingly


It seems that in the Shaver Kool thread (can be viewed in the classic threads list sticky at top of forum) which managed to persist from 2000 to 2005, swords of this type were issued in the Indonesian Navy as 'swords of honor' in about the 1960s, but uncertain how much before or after. The VOC stand for the Dutch East India company, whose heritage stands in Java and particularly Batavia (now Jakarta). There was also a famed shipwreck of one of these early ships named the 'Batavia'. These swords seem to have come up over the years on occasion on ebay. The 'eagle' head is believed to be a gryphon but often is perceived to be the mythical 'Garuda' as well.

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Jim

P>S> Thanks guys memories !!!! LOL.

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