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Old 1st September 2017, 10:22 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Sajen
Hello Terry,

sorry again, not very well made! How long is it? Maybe a patrem or jimat keris, maybe forged from an old blade? David is correct, a keris selit is a Malay dress keris.

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Detlef
Detlef, there is a ruler in some of the photos so it looks like it might be about 6 inches long for the blade. I will say that generally patrems are not usually works of high keris art. Could be jimat as well i suppose.
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