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20th July 2008, 08:43 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 208
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From experience, some guys out there in lombok specially, turn the gandar from bugis-sumbawa keris (with javanese keris blade) into balinese keris look only in one day because there are some a month tourist came and interest with balinese keris complete with all those bling bling (ivory,silver,gold etc ).
I interest too sometime so far the keris look nice :-) So..base on that experience, the gandar on this keris is actually belong keris bugis or keris bugis-sumbawa. I never see OLD balinenese keris sheath (gandar) with three small silver stripe line decoration. That is my opinion about this keris. Hey, the keris perabot look nice well made. 
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20th July 2008, 10:53 PM
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EAAF Staff
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Louisville, KY
Posts: 7,325
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Very true David - the selut is not traditional Balinese.
You also bring up an interesting point about the smoking - if this were truly an old hilt, for example, then the low spots and not just the raised portions would be darkened. |
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21st July 2008, 02:21 AM
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Vikingsword Staff
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 6,365
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The buntut is quite outside my experience with Bali dress .
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