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[danny1976]

Hello DAhenkel.

You wrote this ..

-------Danny, did you ask the seller whether they had any history behind this keris? Any details about who collected the piece or where it was colleted would be very useful.

I think this is a Bugis keris but not Straits. It looks like it could be "tanah besar" that is, from Sulawesi itself.-----------

The only thing that i know about the history is what the seller told me.
The kris was brought back by a uncle of his wife about 60 years ago and was given as a present to here , the had the keris for more than 30 years on there atick (zolder)
The uncle was statsioned on Sumatra during the dutch indie,s .
There is another keris by the sister of his wife but she don,t want to sell it he told me , but he would ask here .

But can u please explain more about Tanah besar , what would it mean if its from Sulawesi itself.

What looks strange to me is that after cleaning the tolo toli its seems like copper verry nice filagrain but the ''machette'' under the toli toli is silver i seems a odd combi to me.

Regards,

Danny