Shipping challenges in Europe for Keris

[Henk]

Best is to ship it by post. Don't use the description keris. An employee adviced me once to describe it as men's accessories. Never had problems with it.

[David]

If i am not mistaken, Alan would often list keris for shipping as "Dhuwung-Indonesian handicraft made of metal and wood".

[A. G. Maisey]

If we ship anything to another country we complete a form that is for the Customs agency of that importing country.

It must be absolutely truthful. Not truthful you can be in big trouble.

But there are many ways in which to be truthful, and a lot of people cannot differentiate between the various forms of the truth.

I rather like the "men's accessory":- absolutely truthful.

Just be certain never to lie. It is my understanding that every parcel that enters Australia is x-rayed. This probably applies to other countries as well.

[thomas hauschild]

A special from and to germany is that the weapon-law forbid „two-edged- daggers and push-daggers“ as forbidden weapons.

If you buy something from outside EU, your shipment will go thru customs. A risk that they keep and destroy it. Nobody knows how much they x-ray while shipping to outside germany and where they scan.

Best Thomas

[Anthony G.]

Originally Posted by thomas hauschild

A special from and to germany is that the weapon-law forbid „two-edged- daggers and push-daggers“ as forbidden weapons.

If you buy something from outside EU, your shipment will go thru customs. A risk that they keep and destroy it. Nobody knows how much they x-ray while shipping to outside germany and where they scan.

Best Thomas

Hi

Thanks for sharing, I suppose the dealer has to refund me as it is simply not possible to ship.

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by Anthony G.

Hi

Thanks for sharing, I suppose the dealer has to refund me as it is simply not possible to ship.

Don't do it, it's possible to ship the keris to you without any problems, the problem will be only in the head of the persons from the auction house!!

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by thomas hauschild

A special from and to germany is that the weapon-law forbid „two-edged- daggers and push-daggers“ as forbidden weapons.

If you buy something from outside EU, your shipment will go thru customs. A risk that they keep and destroy it. Nobody knows how much they x-ray while shipping to outside germany and where they scan.

Hi Thomas,

This will be a problem when you receive something from outside EU by German customs. But not a problem by export. And the "two-edged-dagger" story isn't true at all, have had this with a person from cutoms in the past and at last they handled it over in my hands. Read the weapon law from Germany, you can read it online. And all is different also by ethnograhic items.

Regards,
Detlef

[Anthony G.]

Originally Posted by Henk

Best is to ship it by post. Don't use the description keris. An employee adviced me once to describe it as men's accessories. Never had problems with it.

It is ok to ship keris into Singapore as long there is correct declaration and there is a requirement for buyer to apply the police permit.

A properly declaration will not have problem but to lie about it will cause the offender a fine and possible jail term as well as blacklisted. So no more keris hobby.