A very nice Amanremu with silver fittings, Northen Sumatra, Kelling Hall collection.
Being 67cms overall with a 53cm blade, this attractive Amanremu remains in very good condition. There are silver fitting to the hulu babah buya hilt, these are seen on the protrusions and the ferrule at the blade. A copper spacer is between the hilt and the blade, copper also being found to the ends of the hilt protrusions.
The machete style blade is 9mm thick at the hilt with a nice distal taper to the hatchet tip. The blade is clearly seen to be made of three long rectangular bars forged together. One of these bars showing resemblence to "wootz" damascus steel. This "Wootz" like pattern is seen at the cutting edge for one half the width of the lower bar or ingot used.
Although this is most likely not Wootz steel, it is not unheard of to see this type of material used in Sumatran swords. It may be that the pattern in the upper half of the lower bar/ingot has been lost due to poor forging methods.
