Recently obtained Keris, who can tell...

[Paul Wetering]

Hello all,

As I'm new to this forum, I'd like to start with...
"Nice to meet y'all and wow, what a huge amount of information on this site!"

My name is like in my name, coming from The Netherlands and just started my interest in old and antique objects about two weeks ago.

As for this week, I came past a Keris of which I could obtain, after examining the pictures and then the object itself at the sellers place I decided to buy it.

The only known information, of which can be told with a 100% sureness, is that it has recently crossed the great ocean, from Indonesia to The Netherlands.


But off course, that's not enough information for me, so I took some pictures and I'm sincerely hoping that some of you can tell me a little more about the Keris.
And some tips may come in handy as well, regarding details I should look for when I tend to buy a new object for my, just starting, collection.

Here are the pictures:





The quality of the pictures is not very optimal, took them this evening, so the lighting is crappy, if you need better pictures or a picture of a certain part of the Keris, just let me know.

Here the last picture, with the measurements of the parts (values are metric).
1 centimeter = 0.393700787 inch (according to google).
The picture is quit large (1843x1730) so I only post the link here, so I don't stretch the forum.
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***NOTE: The Pendok has recently been replaced after leaving Indonesia***




Greetz!