Yes sorry, let me give some extra info. They are all very promissing to me, except for the last keris. Let me explain a little. Last year i became the new PM for the dutch Pencak Silat federation the NPSF, and I am working on 2 big projects now.
Starting the training in fighting and training the spiritual part and maintaining the quality of the blank weapons toghether with Indonesia to the new generation here in Holland. We still have a lot of pusaka that are beeing used here.
And a big international cultural event in Holland with an exposition of museum peaces of the museum Banten and the Lamakkawa Bone collection with beautiful golden keris from the Bone kingdom.
Also a big Indonesian delegation is comming like Guru besar Ki Kunbang and Guru Besar Parewa La Mataesso Sopeng with the police of Banten.But also Mr K. H. Tb. Sangadiah, the museum director of the Banten Museumis comming.
Prof Dr Rudy Heriyanto is also comming, writer of the book The Golok. All comming to give seminars here in Holland.
We already met in november, and trained toghether, and we are supporting their mission to also bring the Golok to Unesco. So i have the unique chance to learn a lot from first hand...
So the fact that those blank weapons came to me on this moment is a good coincident!
The 2 Lampung keris are perfect for me, with the typical grip and the Sepukal blade, just as they wanted it in east Sumatra. They were made for his grand-parents so i gues maybe 1910 to 1930?
The 3rd keris is the family pusaka and is old. He couldn't tell me how old, but he was talking about several generations.
Interesting Kai, i must admit that i only know a little about the east Javanese keris...
I tried to make some better pictures of the first 3 keris
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