keris Ciribon for sharing

[David]

Originally Posted by asomotif

Here is a picture from this forum. Is this the type of wrongko / gandar you are referring to ?

As for the silver pendok in this style.
I have seen them popping up in the Netherlands for a few years now.
I am under the impression that they might be recent productions after an old model. I find them attractive regardsless of age or origin.

Yes Willem, i have seen this style of wooden gandar before.
On dating the pendok, i was thinking the same thing. The one posted by Sirek in the single keris shot seems older and of a finer quality than Semar's. Could very well be a revival of an old form. Still curious when this form may have originated, but provenance will probably be difficult unless one turns up in a museum collection somewhere with a definite collection date attached.

[A. G. Maisey]

Yes Willem, that keris you show is a dead ringer for the one I have.

The gandar form as shown by Willem existed before 1700, I have no idea when the pendok that echoes this form for first appeared, however, based upon the use of pendok in other forms, my guess would be that it probably didn't come into being prior to the 19th century.