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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 3058516, member: 2844&quot;]Forgot to say, the ship of the sheath is one for formal or festive occasions. For everyday wear the ship would be more kidney-shaped.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think both the hilt and the sheath are painted to resemble a very prestigious wood called barabar in Madurese. It used to be reserved for members of the Madurese royal family (of which there were many).</p><p>The wood is called awar-awar or kayu tulis in Indonesian, written or drawn wood, because it looks like the fine lines were drawn with a pen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two genuine Madurese barabar wood items from my collection, a sheath with tumenggunan hilt (regent&#039;s hilt) and a hilt on a woman&#039;s keris that once belonged to a relative:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]291407[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]291408[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some signs that you are dealing with genuine barabar wood.</p><p>On the sheath you can see a slight colour difference on either side of the dark line:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]291413[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>On the hilt you can see that the size of the grain is slightly different on either side of the dark line:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]291414[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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