Stabby stick

[werecow]

A friend of mine gave me this odd short (~54cm) stick or club with a crude hidden blade. It screws into the grip and is covered with a pattern that is reminiscent of a smiling face of sorts. The wood is sturdy but the blade is crude. Wood and metal ring on the scabbard appears to be covered in varnish.

He found it among his late mother's possessions. She apparently travelled all over the world so it could be from anywhere.

Can anyone help me figure out what it is and where / when it is from?

[Tim Simmons]

A not that nice swagger stick dagger. Sorry to be so blunt.

[werecow]

A not that nice swagger stick dagger.

Thanks! I guess that gives me the what, although I'm still wondering about the whence and the when.

Sorry to be so blunt.

Well, I have eyes so I can see it's not too fancy.

[milandro]

these are not uncommon in the NL, have seen them before.
They may have come from anywhere although the ones I have seen were claimed to be Indonesian.


They are, by the way, I believe, forbidden in our country since the law specifically prohibits weapons which look like a different object (a swagger stick ).

Someone I know had been offering it on line on marktplaats and was quite promptly visited by the police. Be therefore aware of this possibility.

[werecow]

Thanks for the warning. I tried looking this up when I bought an antique swordstick but at the time I could not find anything saying they were illegal other than the vaguest of allusions to "other undesirable weapons" or something to that effect. And there is at least one producer offering modern made sword sticks here (Noblie). But I'll refrain from marktplaatsing it (I've never sold anything so far anyway).

[Ian]

This may be a relatively recent stok komando made popular by President Sukarno. Basically a swagger stick with a concealed blade, sometimes an old tombak. There was discussion of these here.