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Old 2nd October 2012, 11:37 PM   #1
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I bought this large 5 luk blade.

For some reason I am often charmed by the shape of 5 luk / pendawa lima blades. It was definately not the dress of this keris.

Someone dressed this keris with java ukiran, mendak and pendok.
It has a odd shaped wrangka which seems very recent, but to me appears to be made with a precission I would only expect in Indonesia.

So my questions : is this blade from Java ? where would you place the wrangka ?

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Old 2nd October 2012, 11:39 PM   #2
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Great shape Willem,
Whats the hilt like?
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Old 3rd October 2012, 12:16 AM   #3
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here is the entire picture.
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Old 3rd October 2012, 12:19 AM   #4
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Based upon what I can see in the picture it does appear to be a Javanese blade.

Hilt Solo, scabbard is recent, and I am guessing, but probably an attempted copy of an old North Coast wrongko, but either the original was not particularly good, or the current tukang couldn't copy it very well.
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Old 3rd October 2012, 08:53 AM   #5
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I agree that the blade looks Javanese but it is more than 39 cm long so probably not from Central Java but rather North Coast? The dapur includes a large pejetan, single sogokan, tingil and ada-ada? and can be defined as Kala Nadhah with exceptions. The warangka looks disporportionate with the blade (too small). A nice and elegant blade anyway
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