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David - the term carita, as I observed from the way more senior collectors refer to it, encompasses a large variety of blades, invariably all with fullers. It need not be double fullers, and both straight and wavy blades are included.
If we talk about N. Peninsula blade forms, the main categories would seem to be: "Pandai Saras", "carita", "melela". Melela refers to kerises to carita, but with more pronounced fullers, and most melela we see seem to come from Trengganu. With the carita and melela categories, you may have heard of "Tok Chu", which are carita/melela supposedly made by this famous Pandai keris called Tok Chu.
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