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A. G. Maisey · 11th February 2024, 08:23 PM

I do incline to East Jawa for this blade, but there are insufficient indicators to be too definite about that. What I can be a little more definite about is that I can see nothing in the elements of style or construction that point to it having been made in Bali itself.

Tangguh is an opinion on origin, it is a classification system that uses certain indicators to form the basis for an opinion on where the blade might have originated.

We normally use about a dozen or so indicators, and only a couple of those indicators rely completely on the appearance of the blade, I cannot give a firm opinion on this blade from just a photo on a computer screen.

11th February 2024, 08:23 PM	#8
A. G. Maisey Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 6,725	I do incline to East Jawa for this blade, but there are insufficient indicators to be too definite about that. What I can be a little more definite about is that I can see nothing in the elements of style or construction that point to it having been made in Bali itself. Tangguh is an opinion on origin, it is a classification system that uses certain indicators to form the basis for an opinion on where the blade might have originated. We normally use about a dozen or so indicators, and only a couple of those indicators rely completely on the appearance of the blade, I cannot give a firm opinion on this blade from just a photo on a computer screen.