Lot 58:
A FINE AND RARE PHILIPPINES KATIPUNAN SWORD
Description
Exceptional Visayas work, the blade finely wrought in pinuti form with long thrusting tip and back edge with expanded forte. Elaborately engraved with flowering vinework and engraved in Tagalog, HINDI MA BIBILI HINDI MA HIGINGE (sic) CANNOT BE BOUGHT – CANNOT BE ASKED FOR! — a noted Tagalog riddle to which the answers are Wisdom, Love, and Time. The grip of dark horn terminating in an elaborately scrolled pommel, with silver ferrule and broad guard with finely profiled edges and engraved overall in flowering vinework en suite with the blade. The pommel set with the Katipunan insignia, a large triangular silver plaque engraved with a five-pointed star in each corner and the sun in splendor at the center, echoing that on the flag of the First Philippine Republic, unfurled by President Emilio Aguinaldo on June 12, 1898. C. 1898. Minor wear, loss to horn at one side of pommel. Overall length 62.5cm./ 24 ¾ inches. Condition III
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