Southeast Asian Knife Assortment(3) items including Indonesian or Moro style kris having wavy double-edged blade, Malay style parang having straight single-edged blade and a Filipino Moro style barong having thick, single-edged leaf shaped blade; all having various carvings and adornments to handles and scabbards
Provenance: The Estate of George 'Yorgo' Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan from 1965-2000
Property from: a Kalamazoo, Michigan estate
Length: 22 1/4 inches, Width: 2 1/4 inches (barong, unsheathed, tip to pommel (largest))
Category: Military & Weapons > Knives
Estimated Sale Time: 12:53 pm CST
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Depth: 22.25
Depth: 22.25
Condition
Very Good to Good, overall light to moderate wear consistent with age and normal use; parang having broken portion of carved adornment to scabbard and moderate oxidation to blade; borong having moderate oxidation to blade, area of broken adornment on wood handle and splits to some of the decorative reed lashings around scabbard; kris having minimal oxidation to blade with some darkening to metal portions of handle and scabbard and stress cracks in wood handle that do not affect the integrity of the knife; metal handguard on kris slightly loose; light dirt accumulation to all; Disclaimers: please note: this lot came from a house that had been closed for some time and a musty odor may be present