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3rd May 2024, 04:49 PM
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Reminds me somehow of some hilts I've seen from Nias, but I doubt I'm correct.
Even so, someone has to open the guessing. |
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3rd May 2024, 06:01 PM
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Could it be from Mindanao ?
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3rd May 2024, 08:49 PM
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To me it's a stylized makara handle, so a Sunda or Sumatra origin would be obvious to me.
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3rd May 2024, 09:37 PM
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Thank you gentlemen.
Your responses demonstrate the problem I have had to the present time. Hopefully a few more people might like to post a confident opinion. Is anybody able to nominate an authoritative reference? Last edited by A. G. Maisey; 3rd May 2024 at 09:49 PM. |
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3rd May 2024, 10:15 PM
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Sadly no! But I think that it's indeed a stylized makara handle, compare it with a pedang handle from Lombok. Another possible origin.  When I am correct, we only have to look where makara handles were used, direct to mind coming Java, Sunda, Sumatra and Lombok. |
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3rd May 2024, 10:32 PM
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It might well be so Detlef, but other people have had other ideas.
For myself, I do not know, & that's why I'm looking for some certainty. |
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3rd May 2024, 11:42 PM
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Hello Alan,
No convincing, much less any confident opinion from my side, I'm afraid. Pics from more angles may help. How old would you estimate this hilt to be? (From the pic, the carving quality doesn't seem to be especially high...) However, in my opinion, any similarity would need to be really close to allow for any reasonable inference on its origin (or even possible meaning). Regards, Kai |
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