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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 4th June 2025, 09:57 AM
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Posted By HughChen
Thanks for showing those beautiful pics. Are...

Thanks for showing those beautiful pics. Are stones in the first pic also crystal and Garnet?
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 4th June 2025, 05:55 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 6,307
Posted By HughChen
Hello, Alan, in close examination, I find the...

Hello, Alan, in close examination, I find the setting technique employed is bezel setting rather than gluing. Does this make it a high quality one?
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 3rd June 2025, 04:59 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 6,307
Posted By HughChen
Thank you Alan, Why silver and so many stones can...

Thank you Alan, Why silver and so many stones can not make the selut a high quality one? Many similar hilts don't even have a selut, just hilt plus a small mendahk.
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 3rd June 2025, 04:57 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 6,307
Posted By HughChen
Thank you David, I find the thread I mean. It's...

Thank you David, I find the thread I mean. It's not all about the selut, some discussion is concerned with the form of the selut. Some mentions that if the upper rim is curved or scalloped, the...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 3rd June 2025, 04:47 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 5,490
Posted By HughChen
A similar one

A similar one from my collection
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 2nd June 2025, 05:40 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 6,307
Posted By HughChen
Hilt Mendahk

In my memory, there was a thead discussing this type of hilt structure, but I can't find it anymore. Could anyone provide it?
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 27th April 2025, 04:38 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 13,609
Posted By HughChen
New Purchase: A tumbok lada

Just purcahsed from an auction.

Comments, opinions and information invited.
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 27th April 2025, 04:30 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 49,366
Posted By HughChen
Hello, Milandro, where can we find those who can...

Hello, Milandro, where can we find those who can create a sheath for a keris without it?
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 31st March 2025, 03:35 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 10,098
Posted By HughChen
Two similar silver hilt

I have two very similar silver hilts. They are of the same type of the two you shows here.
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 15th December 2024, 04:51 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 17,839
Posted By HughChen
€42,000 keris

Thank you for your showing of the €42,000 one. The blade seems much shorter than the scabbard. Does it indicate a wrong match or the blade had been repired before? Does anyone have some comments on...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 15th December 2024, 02:55 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 17,839
Posted By HughChen
More auction results

Are them the most expensive keris sold recently (like within a year) in online auction house?
Do we have more other thread discuss about expensive auction results? I'm quite interested in them.:D
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 2nd November 2024, 03:18 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 36,338
Posted By HughChen
Thank you David, I also have a similar one

Thank you David, I also have a similar one
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 1st November 2024, 09:53 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 15,701
Posted By HughChen
Thank you Milandro, It seems that there is no...

Thank you Milandro, It seems that there is no easy way to distinguish rhino horn with buffalo horn.

It is big enough to be a Keris hilt, the only thing require is a Balinese selut to change the...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 1st November 2024, 05:55 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 15,701
Posted By HughChen
So many names for water buffalo in Jawa. So the...

So many names for water buffalo in Jawa. So the English name of this kind of Keris is: friend of buffalo?
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 1st November 2024, 05:46 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 15,898
Posted By HughChen
But if you haven't learn the rules, ie the...

But if you haven't learn the rules, ie the descriptive distinction, how can you categorize your 200 ivory hilts in the begin?
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 1st November 2024, 04:15 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 15,898
Posted By HughChen
Thank you Alan, could you teach us how to...

Thank you Alan, could you teach us how to distinguish marine ivory donoriko with elephent ivory donoriko?
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 1st November 2024, 04:12 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 15,701
Posted By HughChen
Thank you Alan, can you tell us what's the...

Thank you Alan, can you tell us what's the meaning of the following words?
Kebo
Dengen
Sembilan
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 1st November 2024, 04:11 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 15,701
Posted By HughChen
I know where they came from, because I brought...

I know where they came from, because I brought something else in the same place. They just sent me the kerises I didn't purchase instead of the kerises I brought. The cost of return and change will...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 31st October 2024, 03:48 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 15,701
Posted By HughChen
I have no idea why the pictures I post are all...

I have no idea why the pictures I post are all flipped and repeated
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 31st October 2024, 03:44 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 15,701
Posted By HughChen
Thank you Milandro. Yes, the Bugis one has a horn...

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...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 31st October 2024, 12:40 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 15,701
Posted By HughChen
The horn hilt

The horn hilt
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 31st October 2024, 12:40 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 15,701
Posted By HughChen
Two uninvited keris for comments

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...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 31st October 2024, 12:27 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 36,338
Posted By HughChen
Maybe that is the only answer. It doesn't belong...

Maybe that is the only answer. It doesn't belong to any Keris culture, it's something else coincidently happens in a Keris.
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 31st October 2024, 12:18 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 15,898
Posted By HughChen
Thank you for your comments. Very high amount of...

Thank you for your comments. Very high amount of information for me to learn.
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 31st October 2024, 12:15 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 15,898
Posted By HughChen
more pics

more pics
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