Single Owner Online Auction (Sale #290)

Southeast Asian Knife Assortment

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Start price: $100

Estimated price: $200 - $400

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Southeast Asian Knife Assortment

(6) Indonesian and Malaysian variations of goluk and parang knives, all single-edged including straight, curved and forward-angled leaf shaped blades; all having carved wood handles and sheaths with adornments with a goluk having plain scabbard with incised motif on both sides of blade

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: 19 1/4 inches, Width: 1 3/8 inches (forward-angled leaf blade goluk, unsheathed (longest))

Condition: Very Good to Good, overall light wear consistent with normal use; mostly light to moderate oxidation on blades; some wear to handles and sheaths including loose decorative lashings and goluk having loose metal hand guard

Disclaimers: please note: this lot came from a house that had been closed for some time and a musty odor may be present

Category: Military & Weapons > Knives

Estimated Sale Time: 12:52 pm CST

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Sales Tax: California (7.25%), Florida (6%), Georgia (8.5%), Kansas (6.5%), New Jersey (6.625%), New Mexico (5.125%), New York (8.875%), Pennsylvania (6%), Washington (10.5%)

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Last modified: June 3, 2022, 12:02 pm

Condition: Very Good to Good, overall light wear consistent with normal use; mostly light to moderate oxidation on blades; some wear to handles and sheaths including loose decorative lashings and goluk having loose metal hand guard

Dimensions: 1.375 x 19.25 in