Two daggers with jade handles decorated with gold, rubies, and emeralds. India, 18th century [1009×1900]

    by MunakataSennin

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    1. How interesting. Left is a Javanese, possibly Balinese keris that has found its way outside of its culture and then remounted into a subcontinent handle.

    2. There’s a little place to pass a string through at the end of the right one’s handle. I wonder how that part was used. 

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