Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
23rd January 2024, 07:01 AM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
22nd January 2024, 06:26 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd January 2024, 04:04 PM
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Replies: 3
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Nice silver yemeni jambiya sheath
A nice flea market find. A beautiful silver Yemeni filigree thuma jambiya sheath. Alas without the pointy bits, but nice enough to show it. It's marked on the back, and as an added bonus provided...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
22nd January 2024, 02:40 PM
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Replies: 2
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The other Palembang flee market keris
Hi, this is the other Palembang keris I bought at a flee markt. Also a nice one I think. Less smooth as the other one, but as i see it still a very good quality blade. It has some remnants of kinatah...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
13th December 2023, 10:38 PM
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Replies: 23
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Thanks for the advice, I'll give the gonjo...
Thanks for the advice, I'll give the gonjo realignment a try. It's only a little bit, but just enough to prevent the blade to be inserted all the way.
When I found the kerisses on the market I...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
12th December 2023, 07:52 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 15,391
Palembang keris?
Dear forum members, this is one of my latest flea market finds, a rather nice, I presume, Palembang keris. I think a nice one, it's big, the blade is 43 cm (without peksi) and in total 55.5 cm, and,...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
13th April 2016, 07:14 AM
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Replies: 9
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Unusual style sheath
Last weekend I found this empty scabbard at a flea market. It's pretty worn down, quite old, and in bad repair. What attracted me was the unusual style. Could somebody tell me where this style...
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Forum: European Armoury
4th January 2015, 07:33 PM
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Replies: 1
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spear identification
Hello,
some time ago I picked up this spear point at a flea market. My first thoughts were Indo-Persian. Don't know why but the general shape reminded me of that region. But after a visit to the new...
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Forum: European Armoury
1st November 2014, 10:42 PM
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Replies: 5
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Old sword or fake?
At my workplace, an opera house, we have quite a large weapons room. We have several hundred swords in storage. Most of them are your typical theatre replicas, but there are also quite a few original...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
2nd November 2013, 10:41 PM
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Replies: 6
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
2nd November 2013, 09:37 PM
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Replies: 6
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second keris
This is the second keris I would like to present. Bought not so long ago I was attracted to it because of the sheath. I like the colouring of the wood, I have never seen one as black as this one....
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
21st October 2013, 10:19 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 4,671
Thanx again for your comments. As mr. Maisey...
Thanx again for your comments. As mr. Maisey draws our attention to certain aspects of this keris (the form of the gonjo and the ron dha, and the lack of erosion), could somebody explain me the...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
20th October 2013, 11:07 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 4,671
About the stain. A few of the kerisses I own I...
About the stain. A few of the kerisses I own I cleaned with pinapplejuice or limejuice to get rid of any rust, and they always came out dull and with the pores of the metal openend, which give it a...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
19th October 2013, 12:04 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 4,671
Well, first of all, thanks for your comments so...
Well, first of all, thanks for your comments so far. As for the questions: the length of the blade is 41 cm including the peksi, 34 without. It has no dress, I bought it as it is now, with the same...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
18th October 2013, 10:02 PM
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Replies: 12
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new member, old keris
First of all, thanks for allowing me to join this forum. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Peter Paul, and live in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I'm an art historian who turned away from art,...
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