Patrem for Comment and Identification

[ganjawulung]

Originally Posted by Newsteel

Good buy Pak ganjawulung. Very nice deadly little piece.

This is indeed from southern sumatra, Palembang keris. The sharp bend curve is unusual but not uncommon. Here we can see the fusion between mid Javanese and typical sumatran forging techniques. It is typical for sumatran keris to be quite thick as it is for practical use.

The ivory hilt doesn't seems right (my personal opinion). You can have it change. To me this ivory looks like for badek or sewah..

I hope you can post 'as it is' picture and not edited. I would love to appreaciate more of this cute fellow.

Yes Newsteel,

The ivory handle more looks like badek handle. I think the first owner had mixed style: Sumatranese, but also Bugis (the blade is like sepukal, as Alamshah and Penangsang just said). And it has no methuk as jalak budo. For Lemmy and Newsteel, these are more pictures on this smaller keris...

Thanks David, for encouraging me to "join" the "patrem community"...

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