Banjarmasin keris for comments.

[ferrylaki]

Originally Posted by asomotif

Unfortunately these are all the pictures I have, and I was not the lucky buyer.

Better pictures of the blade would have been interesting indeed.

its an unusual tipe of warangka.
it would be nice to see the whole keris indeed.
since there is no certain tipe of kalimantan keris, we can only see the different fron the tipe of jejeran. its common to see bugis, java,sumatera keris mounth with kalimantan jejeran and warangka.

[Gustav]

The same type of Wrongko is depicted in van Duuren's bibliography, the last colour plate, also atributed to Banjarmasin. On this Wrongko besides the exagerated Lambe the most distinctive feature is the straight Loto. Solonese Gayaman Wrongkos generally doesn't have a Loto, except one type on which it appears, yet curved.

It says nothing of course. The makers in Indonesia are using Keris books for their creations for some time already. It could be just the light in the pictures, yet the right side of Wrongko (when held correctly) looks a bit like reworked, like sanded down, the surface has slightly other, lighter colour then the left side.
There is a possibility the Lambe and Loto are worked out on a common Solonese Gayaman.

The hilt looks like Peninsular Pipit Teleng hilt, yet without being Teleng.

[asomotif]

Check out this Wrangka, on a keris that I missed out on 2 years ago.

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ht=banjarmasin

[Maurice]

Originally Posted by asomotif

Check out this Wrangka, on a keris that I missed out on 2 years ago.

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ht=banjarmasin

Willem,

it seems you misses all the good stuff...

I would love to add this last one with horn wrangka to my own collection.
Do you know where it went?

Maurice

[asomotif]

Originally Posted by Maurice

Willem,

it seems you misses all the good stuff...

I would love to add this last one with horn wrangka to my own collection.
Do you know where it went?

Maurice

No, I did not know the buyer. (it was 2 years ago)
Never heard or saw anything of that keris.

Here the 2 wrangka's together.
Notice the similarities in form.

[Maurice]

Originally Posted by asomotif

No, I did not know the buyer. (it was 2 years ago)
Never heard or saw anything of that keris.

Here the 2 wrangka's together.
Notice the similarities in form.

You might remember the seller. He could tell you more about the buyer?


Yes indeed I see the similarities in form!
Both nice pieces. A pity they slipped through your hands Willem...

Maurice

[Maurice]

I've had contact with the new owner of the Bandjermasin keris and he emailed me some images of the kris, which I was allowed to post in the forum.

Maurice

[asomotif]

Originally Posted by Gustav

The same type of Wrongko is depicted in van Duuren's bibliography, the last colour plate, also atributed to Banjarmasin. On this Wrongko besides the exagerated Lambe the most distinctive feature is the straight Loto. Solonese Gayaman Wrongkos generally doesn't have a Loto, except one type on which it appears, yet curved.

Here a picture of the keris Gustav refers to.