Thanks Jean.
No, I do not have anything at all like that in mind. My examination of these early pieces was only one very small piece of research that is tied to something I've been playing with for around 30 years. The examinations were not towards an end in themselves, but only to help me understand a very small side issue a little better.
Of course I did note a few things, such as, for instance, a very complex twist pamor in a pre-1600 keris. Something I really would not have expected---so much so that my feeling at the time of examination was that somewhere along the line somebody had possibly got their catalogue numbers mixed up.
But as I say, this sort of thing was not really uppermost in my mind, I was looking at very specific things, and trying to relate these things to other things.
I've probably got a few months work in organising the notes and pics, and then some concentrated thinking to do.
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