Agreed Jean. 
 
Nothing wrong with being a pure collector, I was probably a pure collector for perhaps the first 20 or so years of my serious involvement with keris, but as I learnt more, my focus changed. 
 
It just demonstrates what a complex, multi-faceted object the keris is. 
 
I guess there is still a part of me that is collector, its just that where keris are concerned I now collected from a different perspective.
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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