Presentation keris with gilded blade

[milandro]

Originally Posted by Conduit

I wonder how recent is this presentation Java keris?

Again elaborating of these krises , they seem to appear all over the place mostly with one or two nagas on the blade and they are partly or completely plated. The first two I had, I was told, were bought 35 years ago but they are certainly produced to this very day .

Tourist krises may be but they aren’t cheap and quite some work went into making them.

The person who washes my krises told me (and I have verified that they do stain green in some cases) that they are brass plated and that for this reason you can’t submerge them in warangan if you were to want to clean them to bring up the pamor somewhat because the brass will pollute the solution.

I have had 3 of those at some point, now I have one which has no plating and is only made of ferrous material (the others are only plated and they are magnetic even when covered completely of brass)