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A Rare Silver-Mounted Malaysian Klewang 18th/19th Century
23 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £437.50 inc. premium
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18th/19th Century
18th/19th Century
With pattern-welded single-edged blade, silver hilt of European hanger form embossed and chased with foliage against finely punched grounds and comprising scallop shell side-guard, recurved quillons, and curved rounded grip with a vertical row of bubris along each side, in its wooden scabbard covered in burgundy velvet with deep locket and chape engraved with foliage against hatched grounds, the former with belt hook; together with another klewang, 19th century, with slender leaf-shaped blade, and hilt with silvered collar and rounded wooden grip (one pommel mount missing), in its two-piece wooden scabbard with silvered locket and eleven silvered straps (2)
42 cm. and 41.5 cm. blades
42 cm. and 41.5 cm. blades








