Documentation of my Keris and Indo-Malay wapon collection

[Alam Shah]

Hi Michael and Kai Wee, both of you have an impressive and wide-ranging collection. I thank you for your time, effort and spirit of sharing.

Originally Posted by vogan

While I’ve found some of the basics, Frey, Solyom, van Duuren, and recently bit the bullet to send a Dutch bookshop over $300.00 (gasp!) for Tammens three volumes, I find myself scouring the net and this forum for tidbits of information.
Vogan

Hi Vogan, most of us had gone thru' that path, before. The 'De Verre Volken' bookshop at (www.ethnographicartbooks.com/) does have a collection of hard to find keris books. Belief me, it is money well spent. Just treat it as a holiday present for yourself.

Frey's The Kris: Mystic Weapon of the Malay World, Solyom's The World of the Javanese Keris, van Duuren's The Kris: an earthly approach to a cosmic symbol, Tammen's 3 volumes of De Kris: Magic Relic of Old Indonesia, are all good reference books for the study of keris. After that, it'll take sometime to absorb the information within.