bali kris with bugis sheath or...?

[napoleon]

hello i had something similar ,in the sense that it had a little buddist lion where your dragon appears, on this one it was overlaid with gold,and had been etched many times ,im not saying this one is new,but doesnt seem to have the right look to it,for what its worth

[David]

Originally Posted by napoleon

hello i had something similar ,in the sense that it had a little buddist lion where your dragon appears, on this one it was overlaid with gold,and had been etched many times ,im not saying this one is new,but doesnt seem to have the right look to it,for what its worth

Sounds like what you had was a a keris with a "singo" (lion). The creature on Ron's example is probably more correctly a "naga" (serpent) than a dragon, a common element on many keris. A keris doesn't need to be etched many times to be authentically old (could depend on when it was collected) and of course in a tradition that goes back a millenium there are many different levels of what could be considered "old". I think we already established that this keris is an odd man out, so to speak, but that in all probability it is authentic.