Keris Hilts
 

I don't do the show & tell thing much.

I don't believe in displaying my personal keris, and because of this I'm maybe a bit of an oddity in this Forum.

However, I have no problems with displaying my hilts.

I have a personal collection of around 400 to 500 hilts, and of course this does not count the ones that are mounted on keris.

I have stored these in a chest of drawers for years, but a few weeks ago I finally got hold of an old cabinet to house at least part of my collection.

Thank you for showing us these Alan. Absolutely stunning.
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David

Nice Alan. Thanks for sharing. :)

Whoa, amazing! I can spend the whole day looking at the hilts displayed like this! It's packed, but still nicely done! Thanks for showing, Alan.

A good collection :)

Amazing collection!

But one question, why not sort regional or by type?

sajen

WOW!! You have some nice looking hilts there Alan, I like the little patrem one on the second shelf, thanks for sharing.

Thank you people.

I need to apologise for the quality of the closer shots. I trusted technology with those. The first one is a time exposure. When I get a day with decent light I'll do a couple of time exposures close up and you'll be able to see them better.

Sajen, I may or may not sort them into regions and types, at some time in the future. My initial feeling was that I would do this, but when I set this up I worked every night for a couple of weeks just mounting them onto the display bases, and as I mounted I put them into the cabinet, with taller ones at the back.This hapahazard approach has resulted in something that pleases my eye, so I may not sort them. In fact, my nature does not run to the warehouse approach, I prefer "mix & match" --- a bit like a weekend market.I still have probably a year's evening work in front of me with these because I need to work through them one at a time and clean and tidy them.

Then there are the ones still in the drawers.

Awesome collection.. :cool: if only I could have a couple of the malay malay / bugis pieces.. still searching.. :D

I agree with not sorting. That way, there are more "surprises" when one looks. :)