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A Javanese Kris, A Sumatran Kris, And A Balinese Kris
27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £132 inc. premium
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The first with waved pattern-welded blade chiselled with a dragon on one side of the forte, a gilt pearl in its mouth and its tail forming the dada along each side, and wooden hilt carved to represent a helmet and cuirass with a coat-of-arms at the front, in figured wooden scabbard with sarongan and red painted pendoq; the second with similar blade, and wooden Garuda hilt carved as a seated figure of Raksha, in wooden scabbard carved with Arabic verses on both sides of the sarongan and along one side of the pendoq; the last with spear-point blade (pitted), and wooden hilt carved as Raksha and painted green and pink, in carved wooden scabbard en suite (3)
36.3 cm., 37.6 cm. and 24.5 cm. blades
36.3 cm., 37.6 cm. and 24.5 cm. blades







