Keris washer

[A. G. Maisey]

Thanks for your explanation Shahrial.I didn't realise I was looking at last year, but that doesn't really matter as my interest was in the process.

I do not feel inclined to raise the matter privately with Adni, as I do not correspond with him, and I feel it would be rather impolite to approach him with this query, especially as I do not participate in this event, and have no intention of so doing.

I had hoped that you may have known the applicable standards, or, if you did not, that somebody else may have.

I feel it would be most educational for all of us who follow these matters to have a knowledge of the standards used by the judges, as perhaps these standards could be used by collectors in their own evaluation of a keris.

As a product of the Javanese school, I of course have my own set of standards, and as I applied these to the photos of the winners in this competition, I was left wondering exactly what standards were in place.