Alan;
Many thanks for your honest answer and I respect your conviction.
As an aside, although I totally agree with you about one not being able to fully grasp the subtleties of a keris blade from pictures, no matter how high the resolution is unless one can hold it in one's own hand, unfortunately in my case most of my buying is based on pictures from trusted sellers and collectors - a large part of which come from western collections. I consider this as my very modest effort to bring back home those that have travelled far outside their original culture. And if I may add, many of which are in a very sorry state where the blades have been 'abused' by over zealous cleaning into shiny silvery surface, which is definitely not the right way to treat them . but we've gone over this- my pet beef- before.
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