keris Lombok

[David]

Originally Posted by guwaya

The newly made blades nowadays - mostly by Madurese people - are most often polished.

This is true, but from my experience they don't do it correctly and it is usually pretty easy to tell the difference.

Originally Posted by guwaya

In my eyes the lots of "Lombok keris" on the market now is a dealers' concept same to the lots of Sumbawa keris.

I can understand your feeling on this, but i have seen enough keris blades that are obviously related to the Bali "family" of keris that just don't fit into the Bali "pakem" that i feel it is more than likely that there are indeed keris of Lombok origin that have their own small differences.
I certainly agree that the manner of dress can never assure the origin of a blade.
Are you suggesting that there was never any keris forging centers in Lombok or that those centers if they did exist were only in Balinese communities existing in Lombok?