Small Keris, dagger

[JamesKelly]

New guy, currently in Michigan, Midwestern USA. After a lifetime of accumulating American flint & percussion firearms I became infected by a miniature, 3" (76mm) long in the scabbard, Moroccan Koummya. Now, in part because I am a metallurgist, my cutlery inclinations tend to those blades having interesting metal. A Canadian dealer had a small Keris 9-3/4" (248mm) O.A., and a bone-handled dagger, supposedly from Madura, 12-9/16" (319mm) O.A. Guess the latter does not qualify as a Keris but, well, it is Indonesian and does have a layer-forged blade with Pamor. Also got a small kard with Mohammed's Ladder pattern in the wootz, no photos yet.

Currently lusting after a Bali Keris being sold by a dealer in Singapore. What might be the significance of the number of luks/bends? My callow taste is for a lot of them. Well, guess I've paid all my bills this month, so . . . and perhaps that will be about as far as my knife collection goes. We'll see.

And now this New Guy will wait patiently for the moderator to clear my photos.