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Old 9th August 2017, 08:37 AM   #140
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Originally Posted by Sajen
Hi David,

here the picture from the complete keris, the sarung from Roland's keris is very similar and it looks like they coming from the same workshop.
Both examples have a scabbard complete covered with silver sheet, with very good embossing and engraving work, outstanding work indeed. It's not exactly dated but guessed by the work done on this piece to end of the 19th to early 20th century. I would concur with this dating.
Here a picture from this keris, sadly it will be difficult to see the fine work.

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Detlef
From the pics (so I may be wrong) I doubt that these pieces are that old and the style of embossed decoration is not Balinese?
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