Thanks Alan
I am grateful for your comment. If a keris gets to this stage of wear or erosion where the pamor cannot be read, is the blade dead and of no real worth in the native culture and in the western collector market?
Also, if we have a keris that has no visible pamor due to cleaning whereby the etch is lost, does that lessen the spiritual and the financial value of the blade? And is it a disrespect to leave the keris unetched and thus in its 'impoverished' state? Or does it not matter at all?
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