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Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey
Yes Gustav, that 575 picture is very similar.
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Agreed!
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Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey
A rudus Detlef? Just looked it up, seems its got a plethora of names, actually there is Javanese thing that has a blade like this too, but all the hilts I've seen on the Jawa ones are different to the hilt on this one.
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Have a look to van Zonneveld's book on page 115 and for co jang at page 40.
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Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey
Thing is this:- these blades don't just stay in one place, they move all over the entire region. I often feel that attaching a geographic location as point of manufacture is a little bit silly. Maybe the idea of "collected in" is a better way to describe things, or for stuff bought well outside the region where there are reliable examples from somewhere or other it could be "attributed to".
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Agree again with you Alan!
Regards,
Detlef