Help with Keris ID and information

DAHenkel · 10th March 2005, 03:00 PM

I may be wrong on this but there is something very "off" about this keris. It smacks of a - granted, very skilled and experienced - Western knife-maker's attempt to make a keris. The blade has funny garap and the hilt is also very "generic" looking. No offense, but I have my doubts about this one.

mmontoro · 10th March 2005, 03:58 PM

Wow! Now this is getting interesting. Certainly no offense taken and yours was one of the opinions that I was most interested in. There seems (to my admittedly inexperienced eye) to be some age to the blade in the form of darkened, oxidized pitting near the edges of the blade. I tried to show this in the images in this post. The images are oriented vertically so they would fit on the screen without having to be reduced, so please bear with having to scroll a little. If this is genuine age, and not artificial, would someone have wanted to make a copy at some time in the past? Please feel free to pick this piece apart without hurting my feelings as I am interested in learning about it. I got it on eBay several years ago and did not pay much. I believe Adni was another bidder on it.

10th March 2005, 03:00 PM	#1
DAHenkel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 125	I may be wrong on this but there is something very "off" about this keris. It smacks of a - granted, very skilled and experienced - Western knife-maker's attempt to make a keris. The blade has funny garap and the hilt is also very "generic" looking. No offense, but I have my doubts about this one.

10th March 2005, 03:58 PM	#2
mmontoro Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 91	Wow! Now this is getting interesting. Certainly no offense taken and yours was one of the opinions that I was most interested in. There seems (to my admittedly inexperienced eye) to be some age to the blade in the form of darkened, oxidized pitting near the edges of the blade. I tried to show this in the images in this post. The images are oriented vertically so they would fit on the screen without having to be reduced, so please bear with having to scroll a little. If this is genuine age, and not artificial, would someone have wanted to make a copy at some time in the past? Please feel free to pick this piece apart without hurting my feelings as I am interested in learning about it. I got it on eBay several years ago and did not pay much. I believe Adni was another bidder on it.