Advice on another keris

milandro · 11th November 2024, 11:57 AM

Perhaps not born a forgery but changing an original to enhance the sale possibilities by adding something AND not disclosing it to a buyer is certainly objectionable.

I see plenty of krises for sale claiming to be ancient when they very likely are not

Anyway, maybe OP's kris was born that way, we will most probably never know.

SidJ · 9th January 2025, 04:48 PM

Forgive the tangential digression but I could not resist responding to the river find keris racket we see at present. It seems that there are folk who try to utilise high school science of anaerobic conditions in the Indonesian rivers they come from added in with historical accounts of battles explaining why these are found on river bottoms in industrial quantities and such wonderful condition! There's a whole industry based around this sham it seems. I'm sure there are real ones out there but most seem fake and that taints the good ones.

11th November 2024, 11:57 AM	#1
milandro Member Join Date: Jan 2022 Location: Netherlands Posts: 487	Perhaps not born a forgery but changing an original to enhance the sale possibilities by adding something AND not disclosing it to a buyer is certainly objectionable. I see plenty of krises for sale claiming to be ancient when they very likely are not Anyway, maybe OP's kris was born that way, we will most probably never know.

9th January 2025, 04:48 PM	#2
SidJ Member Join Date: Apr 2020 Posts: 207	Forgive the tangential digression but I could not resist responding to the river find keris racket we see at present. It seems that there are folk who try to utilise high school science of anaerobic conditions in the Indonesian rivers they come from added in with historical accounts of battles explaining why these are found on river bottoms in industrial quantities and such wonderful condition! There's a whole industry based around this sham it seems. I'm sure there are real ones out there but most seem fake and that taints the good ones.