For comment Keris Peninsula / Sumatra

[danny1976]

Hello ,

My newest 'baby' for comment and discussion .

It is a Panjang blade with a good blade and on the sossoran area it had nice silver inlay , unfortunately partly missing.
Nice old hilt and pendokok / mendak.

With my limited understanding this is a Malayan keris .
Hope I can get more info here , thinks in advance .

Regards,
Danny

[kai]

Hello Danny,

That's an interesting keris panjang! The blade is not of the classic Bangkinang type and could very well be Malay, indeed; the flow of lines seems quite nice. I'm less fond of the crude "kinatah" which also looks very recently applied to me (I'd try to hammer it into the crevices some more and then polish the surface of the blade - maybe make sure to leave some "koftgari" on the criss-crossed areas, too).

No idea on the origin of the hilt - village level and probably whittled by a former owner himself; the selut looks rather recent to me.

Maybe a pre-WW2 blade that got dressed up locally?

Regards,
Kai