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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Thank you Lee. The phrase "National Treasure" keeps running through my mind. |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 18
Views: 611
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A. G. Maisey
![]() I have received my copy of this book. The book itself is a quality production, the photographs are excellent, the hilts that have been photographed are a bit of a mixed bag, varying from gold hilts... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 13
Views: 934
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Sorry YS, I cannot answer those questions. I do not know the makers of the type of thing that I'm talking about, anything I said would be guesswork only. |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 13
Views: 934
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A. G. Maisey
![]() One little thing I think I'd like to comment on, I emphasise "comment", I'm not interested in debating or arguing the point, I'm just expressing a personal opinion, accept if you will, reject if you... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 28
Views: 706
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A. G. Maisey
![]() This post only deals with the metal pendok in Grendolino's photo #8. It might seem a bit silly to focus on something as insignificant as this one humble little beat up pendok, however, the attention... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 18
Views: 611
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Thank you Jean. I do not understand Dutch. I have not the slightest inkling of what the text on the photographed page says. I can see the hilts, and over the last 50+ years of visits to Bali,... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 28
Views: 706
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Not my call David, I cannot tell Bugis style keris nor dress from one place from Bugis style keris or dress from any other place. I have seen some copies of Bugis dress made in Bali, made in... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 28
Views: 706
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A. G. Maisey
![]() In respect of the pendok motif. I have seen this motif and this pendok design on a number of keris that people who have vastly more knowledge of Bugis-type keris than I do have classified as... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 18
Views: 611
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 18
Views: 611
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Jean, I have this book on order, so I cannot really comment on anything yet. I rarely buy newly published books relating to the keris, and when I do buy, it is usually because I either know the... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 31
Views: 620
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A. G. Maisey
![]() I do not know the name, if indeed there is some special name, but what I have noticed is that this binding seems to occur mostly on a gandar that is made in two pieces. Some two piece gandars have... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 28
Views: 706
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Yes, understood David, but really, I don't pass on too many questions if I have a halfway OK response, and someone else has not got there first. I don't care what Grendolino wants out of his post, he... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 28
Views: 706
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A. G. Maisey
![]() I can understand the bulk offering David. I doubt that Grendolino is looking for a discussion of his items, from what he has written I'd take him as a general collector who has stumbled upon a few... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 28
Views: 706
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A. G. Maisey
![]() I'm really more than a little surprised that nobody has jumped in and responded to these questions. I noted the thread probably within a couple of hours of it appearing and deliberately withheld... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 18
Views: 611
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Post removed. Second thoughts are sometimes worth acting upon. |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 6
Views: 333
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Ask the carver. Jean, it is a fact of life with keris hilts, and for that matter, with other forms of plastic art in both Jawa & Bali, that we sometimes cannot make a connection between the carving... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 6
Views: 333
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A. G. Maisey
![]() I'd be happy to give it as North Coast, or even East Jawa, as Jean has said, but I think its stretching things a bit to give the hilt as Ganesha. |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Views: 354
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A. G. Maisey
![]() There are a number of hilt styles that depict a slightly bowed figure that has no facial features. This hilt belongs to that group of hilt styles.This faceless style is found in Bali, Jawa and in... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 51
Views: 4,635
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A. G. Maisey
![]() There probably is a rational explanation Jean, but I do not know what it might be. When I was taught about this there was never any sort of esoteric cause involved, it was just a matter of meteoritic... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 51
Views: 4,635
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Jean, this touch test seems to have developed somewhat since it was taught to me by Pak Parman. I suppose that is only to be expected, there has been more than a little development of rather exotic &... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 51
Views: 4,635
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A. G. Maisey
![]() David, just to clarify a point:- I specifically omitted any reference to keris for the simple reason that it just makes the question more difficult to answer. Yes, this Forum is about keris, but it... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 51
Views: 4,635
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Yes Ian, I agree, it would very nice if a person such as a cosmochemist, or some other specialist in a related field should stumble across my question and be able to immediately dash off a convincing... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 51
Views: 4,635
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Ian, I have tried to keep my question as direct and as simple as possible. I have not mentioned composites, I have not mentioned the various types of iron nickel meteorites. I am not even thinking... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 51
Views: 4,635
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Where we have ferric material with a carbon content that is below 0.5% we can use cold forging techniques to form it, when we move the material into the black heat to low red those low heats are not... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 51
Views: 4,635
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Even though I have worked iron-nickel meteoric material in the forge I know almost nothing about meteors, as I commented earlier, I have never studied this material, I have only used it. So this is... |
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