Hello Alan,
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in broad terms, low end would have been something like a Tuban wengkon in Jogja timoho with mamas, high end would have been Kinom , probably in new Solo wrongko with silver. Both blades would have been in a good state of preservation.
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So these would start in the price range of a smaller 2nd hand car (in good state of preservation
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BTW, what's the concept of an "old" keris (blade) in Jawa?
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A Javanese gentleman with considerable experience in keris would recognise what they were. A western collector , even one with 30 or 40 years of experience in keris, all or most of it obtained in the western world, would only see some rather unremarkable old blades.
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So this boils down to wether one has a firm understanding of the tangguh system or not?
Regards,
Kai