[A. G. Maisey]

I do understand that your experience differs from my own, Gustav, and I do respect your right to hold an opinion that differs from my own.

Marco, I doubt you will ever see what you would like to see, my own opinion is primarily based upon what I have owned, seen, & sold, as well as the opinion of a tukang wrongko who came from a long line of m'ranggis & who worked for me for around 12 years.

The few sources of information I quoted in a previous post are overall my most important sources of information, but I cannot recall that this particular topic under discussion ever arose with these people to whom I referred.

And after all of this, I still cannot understand what this thread is all about.

I think I might bow out of this discussion, I've been in Bali & Jawa for the last three weeks, I'm on holidays, and it will be another week at least before I get home, so I think I'd rather talk to the people here about keris than continue trying to understand what we're trying to do here.