Hi Michael and Kai Wee, both of you have an impressive and wide-ranging collection. I thank you for your time, effort and spirit of sharing.
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Originally Posted by vogan
While I’ve found some of the basics, Frey, Solyom, van Duuren, and recently bit the bullet to send a Dutch bookshop over $300.00 (gasp!) for Tammens three volumes, I find myself scouring the net and this forum for tidbits of information.
Vogan
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Hi Vogan, most of us had gone thru' that path, before.
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'De Verre Volken' bookshop at (www.ethnographicartbooks.com/) does have a collection of hard to find keris books. Belief me, it is money well spent. Just treat it as a holiday present for yourself. 
Frey's
The Kris: Mystic Weapon of the Malay World, Solyom's
The World of the Javanese Keris, van Duuren's
The Kris: an earthly approach to a cosmic symbol, Tammen's 3 volumes of
De Kris: Magic Relic of Old Indonesia, are all good reference books for the study of keris. After that, it'll take sometime to absorb the information within.