Michael, that's a most wonderfull addition to a wonderfull collection!
How did you manage to get this one???
Besides yours, I have never seen others on the market, nor in private collections.
The only few I know off, are very early collected (pre 1850), and are in museumcollections. But this parang bedak is such rare, that also the ones in the Dutch museums can be count on the fingers of one hand!
Ofcourse the "most famous" parang bedaks are the one from Muller in the Leiden museum, and the one in the Bronbeekmuseumcollection.
Also you can see dayak's wearing such bedak on the drawings in Muller's book about his expedition!
I think most of the collectors (even collectors with a Borneo collection), don't realise how rare and old this one is!
Congratulations with this great find.
Kind regards,
Maurice
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