Tricky Bugis Keris

[David]

Originally Posted by Alam Shah

I somewhat agree. How about the similarities to Keris Kapak Cina? Any comments?

Well, luckily I not a betting man. How about comments on the fittings?

You know, i am afriad i can't really get a good enough look at the keris kapa cina to make a viable conparison. Again, as with John's keris, it bears an overall similarity, but i think that if we examined it piece by piece we would not think there were of the same origin.
As for the fitting, i'm pretty baffled. Bugis influenced Sumatran , Sulawesi and peninsula dresstends to mend together for me. I miss the subtlties.