Moro kris gangya covered

kino · 8th October 2013, 02:08 AM

There are no remnants of an okir on the covers, there are these dots design perhaps a start of an okir. The brass band of the scabbard has same dotted design.

The pommel is tight to the hilt, no wiggle. It doesn't seem like it was ever broken or repaired. Unless of course it was glued and the rattan binding was used as a clamp to stabilize the pieces until the glue dries. Maybe the binding was supposed to be discarded after the glue dries.

X-ray?, Halloween is almost upon us, perhaps I could sneak the kris in with some candy and have the local facility that provides free x-ray service for collected Halloween candy zap it.

I wonder if the covers serves as the same purpose of having the arrowhead design filled in with metal. I have seen maybe 2 kris' with the arrowhead filled in, 1 was copper filled and I can't recall what the other was.
DaveS might be the owner of 1 of those kris'.

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8th October 2013, 02:08 AM	#8
kino Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,018	There are no remnants of an okir on the covers, there are these dots design perhaps a start of an okir. The brass band of the scabbard has same dotted design. The pommel is tight to the hilt, no wiggle. It doesn't seem like it was ever broken or repaired. Unless of course it was glued and the rattan binding was used as a clamp to stabilize the pieces until the glue dries. Maybe the binding was supposed to be discarded after the glue dries. X-ray?, Halloween is almost upon us, perhaps I could sneak the kris in with some candy and have the local facility that provides free x-ray service for collected Halloween candy zap it. I wonder if the covers serves as the same purpose of having the arrowhead design filled in with metal. I have seen maybe 2 kris' with the arrowhead filled in, 1 was copper filled and I can't recall what the other was. DaveS might be the owner of 1 of those kris'.