Welcome to the forum Buntel Mayit. I have very mixed feelings about having such a discussion on the forum. It is certainly true that techniques for the aging of keris have gotten very good in recent years and it makes proper assessment of some keris extremely difficult. However, by discussing what we are able to see as telltale signs of artificial aging we are only giving these people clues as to how to make this process even harder to spot.
It should also be noted that AFAIK, keris are not necessarily aged in order to create fakes to fool people. This look is the current taste in Jawa i believe and customers of new blades often want their blades to have a certain aged look. It is only when a seller claims one of these aged keris to have real age that we can call them fakes or counterfeits.
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