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Old Yesterday, 12:40 PM   #1
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I have these two uninvited Keris. I have them but not out of my intention. I didn't purchase them, but they were sent to me by 'mistake'.
One of them has a horn hilt, I don't know what kind of horn. In the begaining, I thought it was wood.

The other has a very good fragrance and it's long-lasting.
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nice krises

A Javanese and a Bugis kris , my guess is that the horn hilt is the Bugis? In that case it is most probably buffalo horn. I have a Bugis with a buffalo horn hilt.
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nice krises

A Javanese and a Bugis kris , my guess is that the horn hilt is the Bugis? In that case it is most probably buffalo horn. I have a Bugis with a buffalo horn hilt.
Thank you Milandro. Yes, the Bugis one has a horn hilt. I thought it was wood because it has some white coarse part in the top. A friend visited me and told me it's horn.

There is another horn figural hilt, can you help me to ID if it's buffalo or rhinoceros?This one looks better than the Bugis one
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I don't think the second hilt (very nice carving indeed!) is Rhino, to me looks like this may be some form of albino water buffalo (which is my favourite material I have a few in very different shades of colour )

From reading about rhino hilt, often that looks like " wood" to many observers. It tends to be mat and not shiny.

I will quote you some threads where you can see examples of people asking questions such as yours

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=21327
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=28853


This hilt you show...I think there is a strong possibility that this too *as another one that you have shown before) is not a Kris hilt but a Betel nut chisel
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I have these two uninvited Keris. I have them but not out of my intention. I didn't purchase them, but they were sent to me by 'mistake'.
hmmm...i wish i had such problems as you. LOL!
The Javanese keris is a nice example of a Mahesa keris. I think the dhapur might be closest to Kebo Teki, but others might have other ideas.
I agree that the other one is a Bugis keris. Not sure of the exact origins though.
So, do you at least know where these "mistake" keris came from and do you have to return them?
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For the kebo style keris I'd be inclined to give it as Kebo Dengen Luk Sembilan.

But there is a problem in that Kebo Dengen should be Luk Lima & it should not have an ada-ada.

In any case, the keris has good age.

Both these keris are nice, middle of the road, collectable items.
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But there is a problem in that Kebo Dengen should be Luk Lima & it should not have an ada-ada.
I find that whenever i find a more than basic Kebo keris it becomes rather difficult toi match it exactly to any of the pakem diagrams i have seen of the forms. There is always something that is not quite like what the pakem diagram shows.
And when i google Kebo Dengen i am finding lots of keris that don't even seem to be in the Kebo family (i.e. no elongated gandik). So go figure, eh?
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Exactly so David.

Even the highly respected Surakarta Pakem book is at variance with popular opinion in many respects.

The whole thing is this:- with keris there is no universal standard that can be applied across the board. My own background is firmly fixed in Surakarta ideas & practices, but this does not mean that those values are universal, it only means that the values & influences of the senior royal house of Jawa set a certain standard in places under its influence. In other places different values can & do apply.

This widespread variation is something that perhaps makes it more important to understand --- or try to understand --- the societal & cultural values attached to the keris, rather than to try to understand the physical values.

Within the Jawa-Bali nexus, there is widespread similarity in societal & cultural values that relate to the keris, whereas there is wide variance in the physical values.
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