Molar hilt, sumatran keris for comments

[Gustav]

Originally Posted by lemmythesmith

Hi all, that's a nice keris Gustav, I really like it. Does anyone know if these hilts were ever made of mammoth molar or are they of elephant molar only?

Thank you very much, Lemmythesmith.

Another question: knows anybody, which is the origin of the different colours of kinds of molar (sometimes red, yellow, orange)? Can it be the age? Is there a knowledge, from where the certain molar with some concrete colour comes?

(Oh, I see Alan has give an answer for a part of my question...)