Frey Collection Picit

[David]

Originally Posted by rasdan

I have doubts on several things about this keris. One of it is the "rainbow" effect on the pendok (circled red in the pic below), I think only seen on gilded silver.

Something does not seem right about this keris. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Well Rasdan, i'm not sure what you mean about something not being "right" about this keris. If by some chance the pendok was gilded silver what would be "wrong" about that. However, these are not high quality photographs and i personally don't believe it is possible to tell, based on these photos alone, whether we have gilded silver of gold here. There are far too many factors that can affect a photo in this manner to be able to tell for sure. Frankly i'm far more interested in the blade than the material of the pendok. It was, apparently, part of Frey's personal collection for some time and he identifies the material as "heavy gold" so who knows. I would think an experienced researcher like Frey would know, but perhaps he made a false assumption and never bothered to test it. i don't find the keris any less interesting either way though.