O.T. A Philippine Tenege

ferguson

ferguson

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This piece arrived Monday and it is super. Friends at the EEWRS think it is from the island of Negros, in the Visayan region of the Philippines. The blade is 22 3/4" long, .262" thick at the ricasso, 1.9" wide at the belly, with an overall length of 28 1/2". It is flat ground on both sides down to the edge with no secondary bevel. There is no sign of it ever being used, carried or sharpened. The octagonal bolster is brass, soldered, with a copper pin through the blade. The hilt is carabao horn. The tang is blind. The scabbard looks like a mahogany type wood, bound with brass bands. The chape is brass, with a finial that looks like horn. The scabbard throat is a very heavy tanned leather, not rawhide, and is joined in the back in the manner like the tortoise shell wrapped Visayan scabbards usually are. There was a piece of paper included, written in fountain pen that says "Presented as a gift to Lt. William Ferguson from a tribal head hunter in New Guinea, during World War II" Now the piece is obviously not from New Guinea, but this information is included for completeness. Pics follow. Thanks for looking,
Steve

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Breautiful, Steve. Bet it feels good to have it back in the family.
 
Steve, where do you find all of this cool stuff? Seeing the pics you post really puts me in the mood to try to track down a antique sword or two. ya know, for when i have my den someday:)


Jake
 
Steely_Gunz said:
Steve, where do you find all of this cool stuff? Seeing the pics you post really puts me in the mood to try to track down a antique sword or two. ya know, for when i have my den someday:)


Jake
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Two words.
E Bay

:D
Thing is, you hardly ever get a bargain unless the person selling it doesn't know the correct names. The hard thing is learning how to search and filtering out all the junk. For example, you can search for

sword (old,antique,vintage) -japanese -samurai -katana

This will give results that contain sword and either old, antique or vintage, but not japanese, samurai or katana.

You also have to figure on popular mispellings. So if your looking for khukuri you might search for
(khukuri,kukri,kukuri,khukri,kookeri,gurkha,gurka,ghurka) etc.

Good luck.

Steve
 
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