bali kris with bugis sheath or...?

A. G. Maisey · 13th June 2011, 08:02 PM

What I will now write is pure opinion and is not based upon any prior knowledge. Often I will write something that I know for certain to be the case, but I couch it as an opinion to avoid offense, or confrontation.

This is not the case this time.

I believe this to be an old ensemble, and genuine.

I know of only one place in the Archipelago that something like this may have been produced, and that is Lombok.

Lombok has mixed cultures, with people of Balinese, Bugis, and Javanese origin living together.

There is a long history of unique , unconventional and highly artistic (as well as incredibly ugly) keris that have come out of Lombok.

If this keris was a racehorse, I'd give odds of 7 to 1 on Lombok origin.

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13th June 2011, 08:02 PM	#19
A. G. Maisey Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 6,992	What I will now write is pure opinion and is not based upon any prior knowledge. Often I will write something that I know for certain to be the case, but I couch it as an opinion to avoid offense, or confrontation. This is not the case this time. I believe this to be an old ensemble, and genuine. I know of only one place in the Archipelago that something like this may have been produced, and that is Lombok. Lombok has mixed cultures, with people of Balinese, Bugis, and Javanese origin living together. There is a long history of unique , unconventional and highly artistic (as well as incredibly ugly) keris that have come out of Lombok. If this keris was a racehorse, I'd give odds of 7 to 1 on Lombok origin.