Need advice purchasing my first Kriis

David · 24th May 2017, 07:44 PM

Hi Ron,
Welcome to the forum. I had to eliminate your links since forum policy demands that all images are uploaded directly to the forums. Just beneath the message box you will find 'Additional Options" and you would want to click on "Manage Attachments".
Only the image you linked to with the 3 blades are keris. The other was some sort of pedang. We only discuss keris on this forum. So if you would like to directly upload the images of keris that would be fine.
We don't, by policy, discuss live auctions and we don't discuss prices, so i do ask that any discussion of these keris be focussed on authenticity and quality. From what i did see in your photos these certainly seem worthy of collection though we would need to see good photos to determine whether they we made for indigenous use or for a collector's market. I would not say these qualify as tourist items from what i saw.

24th May 2017, 07:44 PM	#2
David Keris forum moderator Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 7,218	Hi Ron, Welcome to the forum. I had to eliminate your links since forum policy demands that all images are uploaded directly to the forums. Just beneath the message box you will find 'Additional Options" and you would want to click on "Manage Attachments". Only the image you linked to with the 3 blades are keris. The other was some sort of pedang. We only discuss keris on this forum. So if you would like to directly upload the images of keris that would be fine. We don't, by policy, discuss live auctions and we don't discuss prices, so i do ask that any discussion of these keris be focussed on authenticity and quality. From what i did see in your photos these certainly seem worthy of collection though we would need to see good photos to determine whether they we made for indigenous use or for a collector's market. I would not say these qualify as tourist items from what i saw.