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Old 7th July 2009, 04:54 AM   #1
A. G. Maisey
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Default A real bargain --- maybe.

Those of you who know me well also know that I am never --- well, almost never --- brave enough to gamble on Ebay. I say "almost", because I have bought two items off Ebay that I had originally sold, and that I knew to be good.

This item recently finished in Ebay:-

280363859071

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....lenotsupported

I have seen a lot of these East Javanese scabbards.

They have invariably been made from mamas, a metal that looks very much like silver, but is in fact more like nickel silver or german silver in its composition.

I have never seen one that had been made from true silver.

Whoever won this keris on Ebay either has something of much greater value than what he has paid for it, or -----.
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