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Old 28th September 2021, 12:02 PM   #4
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What an interesting selut. I've never seen one like that before. Thank you for sharing.

Jean - I would have guessed melati rincone too. If it is true that it had previously been ngulit semangka, how does this get altered? Surface manipulation after the fact?

Also I presume that this could be done to improve on imperfections either in forging or because of time. But would there be less practical and more cultural or symbolic reasons for why a keris would have undergone a pamor change or addition? For example, with tambal, my understanding is that it's often done to cover up flaws, which is an expedient thing to do. However a more symbolic or cultural reason would be too incorporate material from a family's tosan aji or pusaka into another as tambal/welded patches, perhaps to allow heavily deteriorated tosan aji to "live on" or to imbue its properties in a more intact tosan aji.
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