Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
1st August 2017, 12:34 AM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
31st July 2017, 09:29 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
30th July 2017, 10:55 AM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
29th July 2017, 05:28 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
29th July 2017, 02:31 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
29th July 2017, 02:28 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
29th July 2017, 01:27 PM
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Thats great, I love that word play. I still...
Thats great, I love that word play. I still wonder if a my keris qualifies as a corok, although my understanding of the keris is limited to a few books and the perusal of a few museum collections,...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
29th July 2017, 10:47 AM
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Replies: 25
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Good morning guys,
I believe the fellow who...
Good morning guys,
I believe the fellow who provided the information is from Java. I didn't want to pry, I don't know him that well.
So it's a descriptive but somewhat ironic term? It brings to...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
29th July 2017, 01:45 AM
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Replies: 25
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Meaning of corok?
I have a rather long Bali keris, and it was recently described to me by a Facebook gentleman as a "keris corok". I look in vain on the web or in my (admittedly minute) library of keris books for this...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
26th July 2017, 02:04 PM
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Replies: 13
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
25th July 2017, 11:50 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
25th July 2017, 11:49 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 4,517
Thanks, that's very interesting! What are they...
Thanks, that's very interesting! What are they holding? It looks like a torch of some kind.
It's so nice to get these bags. There used to be so much great art on the green coffee bags, and I have...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
25th July 2017, 07:49 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 20,609
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
25th July 2017, 07:23 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
25th July 2017, 04:56 PM
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Replies: 5
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Just a little something amusing
In my normal life, I am an importer and roaster of premium coffees. I regularly buy this truly wonderful Balinese coffee, with fruity notes of melon and citrus and a remarkably high caffeine content....
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
25th July 2017, 12:23 PM
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Replies: 33
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Has anyone seen both this new volume and Mr...
Has anyone seen both this new volume and Mr Greffioz' other book The Kris, A Passion from Indonesia? Anything duplicated, or is the new volume all new entries? I am trying to determine if I ought to...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
24th July 2017, 12:27 PM
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Replies: 13
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Has anyone written a book about precolonial...
Has anyone written a book about precolonial times? Something like Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa but with the islands of Indonesia as a back drop? Perhaps the national character, if there is such a thing...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
24th July 2017, 02:33 AM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
23rd July 2017, 09:48 PM
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Works of fiction/history?
Its been a long while since I was here; its very good to see some familiar names and that the interest is still strong in the keris.
I was wondering if anyone knows of works of fiction or...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
23rd May 2015, 12:42 PM
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Replies: 2
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Probably not. If you are interested in this...
Probably not. If you are interested in this subject, you should collect museum catalogs, exhibition guides, and archaeological guides in this area; there are lots. When Sotheby's or Christie's...
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd May 2015, 10:46 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 6,156
It has probably been in a collection, or...
It has probably been in a collection, or collections, for a long time. When that occurs (common in Europe) adventurous people sometimes try to clean them with files, steel wool, whatever. That will...
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Forum: European Armoury
21st May 2015, 10:19 PM
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Replies: 7
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This is a quite common type for the Late Bronze...
This is a quite common type for the Late Bronze Age in Central Europe. The holes are to run a cross tie of wood or bronze through to affix the socket to the spear shaft. The basic form of this spear...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
18th May 2015, 10:06 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
8th May 2015, 10:45 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 10,761
Turns out I have some LV, I have a piece of...
Turns out I have some LV, I have a piece of propeller bearing, I just didn't know what it was. I am a snitcher and hoarder of wood from way back, I have a million pieces of wood from all over. After....
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
6th May 2015, 03:54 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 10,761
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