Spear / lance origin ?

[Maurice]

Hi Danny,

That is a very good looking lance!!!

I've seen a similar blade in the provenanced Borneo collection of Moller, also with a nice silver sleeve. But then, I never have seen such silverwork on a Borneo lance shaft like yours.....
A lembing Radja from the Bataks looks also different like yours...
Also I never have seen an Aceh lance with this kind of silverwork on the shaft. Aceh lance blades are in general more smoothly forged, and not with that thick pamor on it (if we can call it pamor?)

I wonder if somebody could tell us more about the mark on the blade tip?


But with those silverwork on the shaft, very unexpected.......I incline and will vote for South-Celebes...


Rg,
Maurice

[asomotif]

Nice one. Danny has got a sixt sense for these pieces.

The lance head itself makes me say Java.
The silver collar is found allover the archipelago and beyond.
But the silver strip around the shaft is new to me and I can not place it in a certain area.

It was offered as being from Bali, was there any info from the seller that points to that origin ?

Silverwrapping on the bottom of the shaft can be restored, but at the present silver prices it would propably double or triple the costprice

best regards,
Willem

[danny1976]

Hi Guys ,

Thanks !!

It is still a puzzle to find out what is the origin

Like Willem said the point could be a Jawa tombak , still raises the question what about the mark ?

The silver collar type we can see indeed often on Sumatra spears , but Maurice why you ques is in the direction of South Sulawesi ?

Detlef , I did look on page 82 to the lembing radja . I think it is not a Batak spear .

The silver strip makes it confusing , i will check out the RMV database later.
Maybe the patterns on the collar will give the answer ?

Yes the seller thought it was from Bali , but that was only the story the heard from their uncle .

regards,

danny