No maintenance was done at all. They were like new, but looked very bad. One of the blades was damaged by taking a small piece for examination purposes.
Below I show a comparison of a photograph in the article of Dr. Groneman and a photograph of the same keris in the museum.
The left side of the picture shows the photograph of the keris in the article of Dr. Groneman in 1904.
At the right a photograph of the keris in the collection of the Weltmuseum.
The quality of both photographs is bad but it is still possible to compare the pamor and confirm that it is the same keris.
I hope the museum will have them well maintained and show them to the public when they reopen.
For us it will be very interesting to pay these historical famous keris a visit.
We may be very happy that 100 years after the dead of Dr. Groneman these five famous keris come alive again.
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