2 N. Peninsula keris carita
 

Ok, I haven't been sharing kerises for a while. Since David started off with the shadow Malay keris, I thought I'd share 2 carita kerises from N. Peninsula. Both are interesting in their own ways. The straight one has a diamond cross-section at the base, but turns into a scalloped hexagon cross section. The luk 3 blade is dressed in what looks like a Sumatran style sheath, with beautiful swopping daun-daun. Both blades are Pattani.

Enjoy. :)

The carita luk 3.

Two beautiful pattani pieces.. the luk 3, is a wow! piece to me.. simply mouth-watering.. :D

For the 1st piece, I've seen a similar design (cross-section) in malela form, belonged to Michael (VVV).

Outstanding pieces indeed, bro. Yup, I agree with Sharial, the luk 3 pattani blade is something to be awed about. Looking for one like this....

Hi Bluerf,

Wow ! 2 verry strong blades, nice catch!

the 3 luk is amazing ..

Thanks,

I can't see enough of these gorgeous Pattani blades.
As usual you find the most interesting variations...

Michael

Kai Wee, can you define the carita form for us. I had always thought that the double fullers up most of the blade length as seen in your excellent 3 luk piece was a requirement, but i don't see that in the straight keris you present. :shrug:

Thank you for sharing this two beautiful keris with us. Like Michael write you find the most interesting keris! :) :cool:

Thanks all for looking!

David - the term carita, as I observed from the way more senior collectors refer to it, encompasses a large variety of blades, invariably all with fullers. It need not be double fullers, and both straight and wavy blades are included.

If we talk about N. Peninsula blade forms, the main categories would seem to be: "Pandai Saras", "carita", "melela". Melela refers to kerises to carita, but with more pronounced fullers, and most melela we see seem to come from Trengganu. With the carita and melela categories, you may have heard of "Tok Chu", which are carita/melela supposedly made by this famous Pandai keris called Tok Chu.

Ok, I'm adding another carita to this thread. This is a really rare one, at least in the realm of Malay kerises - a pudak setegal. I think some of you may have seen this keris posted a long time ago, but it was only one small pic, if I remember correctly. Here it is, in all it's glory. :)

Wow! Bro this is better than a beauty pagent...keep those beauties coming!

Though Malay kerises are not rich with pamors, the designs are very elegant. Congrats Blue for all the tip top and top notch Malay keris collection

Kai Weeeeee....... !!!!! I like that pudak setegal piece.

Said - maybe one day it could be yours. Who knows. But ok, it's not to suggest I'm letting it go any time soon! Not yet, not yet... I'm still enjoying its company very much. :)