Sumatra Keris tourist or not?

Henk · 11th April 2010, 03:00 PM

Alan,

That is really to much honor.

As i mentioned before, you couldn't enter an auction house or fleemarket here in Holland without stumbling over these soldier keris. Sometimes just 10 in a box.
If you had a lot of more keris in an auction house 10 to 1 you had 1 or 2 of such keris among them.

It is certainly not detecting the quality of wood from a picture as handling these keris so many times that it is not hard to recognize this kind of keris and recalling the quality of wood on all these keris.
I would be very surprised when the wood of Chregu's scabbard would be of a different wood quality than the scabbards of these type of keris.

On the keris Marcokeris is showing us, i will not give any comment on the scabbard simply because i cann't.

And to be honest, i owned both of these soldier keris shown here by Chregu and Rick in this thread. Sometimes it drove me to madness discovering again a soldier keris among the few keris i bought. Just reselling and hoping it wouldn't take too long before someone was willing to buy it.
I sold them all accept one with a lying lion wrongko. Today i regret i didn't kept such a keris as Chregru is showing. Regrets because i realize more and more the historical period these keris represent. But i'm convinced today or tomorrow i will stumble against such a keris like Chregru's for fish and chips because here in Holland these keris are still considered as the first tourist items brought back by our soldiers.

So Alan, it is not that i am able detecting woodquality from a picture, in that case i would be rich and famous, but the expierence of handling these keris through the years.

11th April 2010, 03:00 PM	#15
Henk Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 1,209	Alan, That is really to much honor. As i mentioned before, you couldn't enter an auction house or fleemarket here in Holland without stumbling over these soldier keris. Sometimes just 10 in a box. If you had a lot of more keris in an auction house 10 to 1 you had 1 or 2 of such keris among them. It is certainly not detecting the quality of wood from a picture as handling these keris so many times that it is not hard to recognize this kind of keris and recalling the quality of wood on all these keris. I would be very surprised when the wood of Chregu's scabbard would be of a different wood quality than the scabbards of these type of keris. On the keris Marcokeris is showing us, i will not give any comment on the scabbard simply because i cann't. And to be honest, i owned both of these soldier keris shown here by Chregu and Rick in this thread. Sometimes it drove me to madness discovering again a soldier keris among the few keris i bought. Just reselling and hoping it wouldn't take too long before someone was willing to buy it. I sold them all accept one with a lying lion wrongko. Today i regret i didn't kept such a keris as Chregru is showing. Regrets because i realize more and more the historical period these keris represent. But i'm convinced today or tomorrow i will stumble against such a keris like Chregru's for fish and chips because here in Holland these keris are still considered as the first tourist items brought back by our soldiers. So Alan, it is not that i am able detecting woodquality from a picture, in that case i would be rich and famous, but the expierence of handling these keris through the years.