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Originally Posted by BluErf
Hi Ki Jayamalelo,
Alas... 99.9999% of us keris collectors can never hope to own, touch, or even see a high-culture keris...  .
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You're not kidding. I have a better end Bali keris that I am 10 years now in restoring. The only true high-culture keris I have ever seen up close and touched (

) was one that Rsword brought to Timonium last year - a Bugis keris with great pamor and covered in 22k gold (but missing a bottom part

). It was beautiful, but I could not come near affording it (though I wanted to very much

).