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Originally Posted by SidJ
Very grateful for your thoughts as always. Noted re cleaning well before staining. The stuff that remains is a very hard encrustation. I'm soaking the blade in mineral oil in the hope it will soften this enough to be scraped off. I don't have any wd40 at hand but will get some if the oil fails. The keris aesthetic in terms of form feels very harmonious to me for want of a better term. It has an elegant grace to the proportions in its simple ordinariness and I cannot identify any areas of harshness in this regard. Please do let me know if you see otherwise. I am perfectly content with negative views. It's nothing personal to me and aids learning about assessing keris.
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Sid, i know it is never satisfying to post something and get limited responses, but often people choose not to respond when they don't feel they have anything of value to add to the conversation. So i wonder what more you are hoping for at this point. To be clear, i like this keris and if it crossed my path at the right price i would probably try to add it to my collection. That said, we are not looking at a high end piece of Balinese/Lombok keris art here. The proportions are not bad, but i might stop short of using the word "elegant". Ricikin such as greneng, sekar kacang and jalen all seem rather rough and not particularly well formed.
I would agree with Alan that pamor santa would probably be the best name for this pamor and that 19th century Lombok is a likely origin. I can assure you that real members of our forum have indeed been viewing this thread, but i am not sure what more engagement you were hoping for.