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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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![]() No story is so good that it cannot be improved, Ian. |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 25
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A. G. Maisey
![]() I know a little bit more about the roots of the van Veenendaal version than I care to make public Bjorn. I would prefer not to name names, but I have been told that he heard this version from a... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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![]() Thank you for taking the trouble to do that translation Bjorn. The translation that you have given is more or less the story of Mayadenawa, but this story can vary from teller to teller in the... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Removing a stuck blade from its scabbard. Over all the time I have been involved with keris and other items of tosanaji from SE Asia, I have never encountered a blade that could not be extracted... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Thank you Lee. The phrase "National Treasure" keeps running through my mind. |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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A. G. Maisey
![]() I have received my copy of this book. The book itself is a quality production, the photographs are excellent, the hilts that have been photographed are a bit of a mixed bag, varying from gold hilts... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Sorry YS, I cannot answer those questions. I do not know the makers of the type of thing that I'm talking about, anything I said would be guesswork only. |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 13
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A. G. Maisey
![]() One little thing I think I'd like to comment on, I emphasise "comment", I'm not interested in debating or arguing the point, I'm just expressing a personal opinion, accept if you will, reject if you... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Views: 824
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A. G. Maisey
![]() This post only deals with the metal pendok in Grendolino's photo #8. It might seem a bit silly to focus on something as insignificant as this one humble little beat up pendok, however, the attention... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 25
Views: 963
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Thank you Jean. I do not understand Dutch. I have not the slightest inkling of what the text on the photographed page says. I can see the hilts, and over the last 50+ years of visits to Bali,... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 28
Views: 824
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Not my call David, I cannot tell Bugis style keris nor dress from one place from Bugis style keris or dress from any other place. I have seen some copies of Bugis dress made in Bali, made in... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 28
Views: 824
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A. G. Maisey
![]() In respect of the pendok motif. I have seen this motif and this pendok design on a number of keris that people who have vastly more knowledge of Bugis-type keris than I do have classified as... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 25
Views: 963
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Jean, I have this book on order, so I cannot really comment on anything yet. I rarely buy newly published books relating to the keris, and when I do buy, it is usually because I either know the... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 31
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A. G. Maisey
![]() I do not know the name, if indeed there is some special name, but what I have noticed is that this binding seems to occur mostly on a gandar that is made in two pieces. Some two piece gandars have... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 28
Views: 824
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Yes, understood David, but really, I don't pass on too many questions if I have a halfway OK response, and someone else has not got there first. I don't care what Grendolino wants out of his post, he... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 28
Views: 824
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A. G. Maisey
![]() I can understand the bulk offering David. I doubt that Grendolino is looking for a discussion of his items, from what he has written I'd take him as a general collector who has stumbled upon a few... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 28
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A. G. Maisey
![]() I'm really more than a little surprised that nobody has jumped in and responded to these questions. I noted the thread probably within a couple of hours of it appearing and deliberately withheld... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Post removed. Second thoughts are sometimes worth acting upon. |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Ask the carver. Jean, it is a fact of life with keris hilts, and for that matter, with other forms of plastic art in both Jawa & Bali, that we sometimes cannot make a connection between the carving... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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A. G. Maisey
![]() I'd be happy to give it as North Coast, or even East Jawa, as Jean has said, but I think its stretching things a bit to give the hilt as Ganesha. |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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A. G. Maisey
![]() There are a number of hilt styles that depict a slightly bowed figure that has no facial features. This hilt belongs to that group of hilt styles.This faceless style is found in Bali, Jawa and in... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 51
Views: 4,910
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A. G. Maisey
![]() There probably is a rational explanation Jean, but I do not know what it might be. When I was taught about this there was never any sort of esoteric cause involved, it was just a matter of meteoritic... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 51
Views: 4,910
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A. G. Maisey
![]() Jean, this touch test seems to have developed somewhat since it was taught to me by Pak Parman. I suppose that is only to be expected, there has been more than a little development of rather exotic &... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 51
Views: 4,910
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A. G. Maisey
![]() David, just to clarify a point:- I specifically omitted any reference to keris for the simple reason that it just makes the question more difficult to answer. Yes, this Forum is about keris, but it... |
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