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[Jean]

Originally Posted by alexish

Hence, I am particularly interested in novelty, uniqeness and rarity of sarung designs.

Hello Alexish,
It is up to you and perfectly acceptable to look in priority for novel sarung designs; however for traditional collectors like the majority of us in this forum, these are considered as art pieces and outside the scope of our collections, and many of these new pieces are poorly designed or made.
On the other hand I have no problem to commission a new sarung if required, provided that it be made according to the required local standards, and of course to collect an old and rare sarung if it appears legitimate (see example).
Regards

[David]

I agree with Jean here. I will add, before the word gets used again, that the sheath Jean shows here, while rare, is hardly "atypical". It is a very traditional style from it's time. The reason it is rare today is that those traditional styles evolved over time and wooden sheaths, being made of a relatively delicate material, simply do not tend to survive enact over the many centuries.

[Bjorn]

I seem to recall recently that many of the wrongko contemporary to the one shown by Jean were also decorated with sunggingan.
At the moment I'm reading Jensen's Krisdisk, so I probably got it from there. If so, then it seems likely that the above applied to pieces commissioned by nobililty.