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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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![]() You can't see the damage? Looks pretty crushed to my eyes. I am also fairly certain there is material lose. Some of the little silver balls around the edge appear to be missing. I suppose one could... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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![]() That doesn't really make too much sense to me unless it was a particular rare form. Mendaks of good material and construction are relatively cheap to acquire through regular dealers or on eBay. You... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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![]() The mineral that is used to make warangan is realgar i believe. It is not difficult to get, though many specimens appear to be relatively expensive and since i have never used it i could not really... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Séverin will have to make up his own mind, but this looks like a real "users" to me and that paint seems to have gotten there of it's own accord. Sometimes it's best to leave the history in place i... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 35
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![]() Well, as someone who seems to be especially prone to pareidolia i also see faces in the vegetal design of these hilts. I suppose it is debatable if these faces are intentional or not, but to me it... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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![]() Aye, it's a nice Irish indeed, but i still prefer a smokey Islay single malt every time. Still wouldn't turn down a wee bit o' Tully though. ;) |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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![]() Thanks Jean. Gabilan was the name i was searching my aging brain cells for. ;) |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 11
Views: 521
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David
![]() Welcome to the forum Max. A nice old Madura/East Jawa keris. The ivory hilt looks like Kojuk Mrenges, though in a less detailed form. It seems to have some age. Is the base wood or horn. It is... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 17
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![]() I suspect this blade will be much easier to read once it has been clean and preferable given warangan treatment. I look forward to the clean up. |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() Thanks for the responses so far. They support some of my own suspicions about it. The motifs definitely do not seem to fit the purported time and place. Ian, i am unfamiliar with Timeline Auctions.... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 4
Views: 487
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David
![]() The asang asang doesn't look suassa to me. More likely bronze. But man, i agree with all the rest. An awesome "archaic" kris in fine condition. Odds are good it has a twisted core as well. That hilt... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Replies: 11
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![]() I have found this information on line about this sword which seems to have come from Peter Finer, who apparently sold this sword at sometime within the last decade. There do seem to be numerous... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Replies: 11
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![]() Hey folks. Just saw this extraordinary sword. The only info on it was as follows: Viking sword, Hedeby, Denmark, 10th century. I am familiar with the archeological site, which is know officially in... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 3
Views: 381
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David
![]() A nice pair. Shame they have no sheaths, but unlike some other SEA edged weapons you can probably make a reasonably acceptable and accurate sheath for a Barung without fairly basic woodworking skills... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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David
![]() Yes, i remember that other keris Sirek. Really like that one, but then i'm a sucker for a nice kebo keris. You are right to not a similar treatment with the sheath. The veneer inlaid onto the gandar... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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David
![]() Thanks Sirek. Happy and healthy 2021 to you and ALL! :) |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() That is not exactly what "abjab", when the word is used alone, means AFAIK. Abjab is a type of writing system in which (in contrast to true alphabets) each symbol or glyph stands for a consonant, in... |
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
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![]() Do a rubbing with pencil and paper of the signature and then check it out in a mirror and you might be about to read the last name. |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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![]() Hi Robin. Thanks for the additional photos. They don't help too much since they aren't really in focus, but i don't think anyone could tell you definitively whether those are yakut (quartz) or inten... |
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