Does cleaning a keris hurt overall value or patina?

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Originally Posted by mandaukudi

Hi Detlef,

it was certainly not mentioned as "attack" so sorry, if it felt like that.
what I only "attacked" was the statement "you can't clean real patina" but this is already answered by David.

indeed I didn't looked on the other thread as I not often visit the keris threads but was "alarmed" by the subject of this thread "

Arjan,

of course i have felt under attack when you have given me the advice that i have to look, than think, and so on. And special with the background that i have had the feeling that you byself haven't read all carefully and you don't know which keris is the one about we write here.

I am not resentful and naturally take your "Sorry".

Keep in mind that I have a great understanding of the respect you have for patina and that i have had many times an internal battle in my mind to "clean" a sarung of a keris (look post #44 in the other thread) and sometimes i have decided to keep the patination (look the picture) but in case of the keris in question i am sure that it only can look better when the sarung is cleaned. And when Dave decide to clean it and will post pictures of the result i am sure that you will agree.

Regards,

Detlef