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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4288464, member: 2844"]No, I was looking at the starting bid.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>US collectors are willing to pay much more than we stingy Dutch are. I have seen similar hilts to the Balinese painted one for sale here for 40 euro.</p><p>I wouldn't pay over 125 euro for the Palembang one, so I don't think I'll even try, with the US collectors outbidding each other. Even here that one could go for more, and it is worth it, it has a real wow-factor.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nevertheless, I really enjoyed seeing the two excellent Sumatran hilts, so thank you for thinking of me.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>It is also an eye-opener that a Palembang carver carved the arms and legs 'open' like that and with so much fine scrollwork. I suspect it may have been by a carver from north Java or Madura, where that kind of work is seen a lot. Carvers and keris smiths did travel.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4288464, member: 2844"]No, I was looking at the starting bid.:) US collectors are willing to pay much more than we stingy Dutch are. I have seen similar hilts to the Balinese painted one for sale here for 40 euro. I wouldn't pay over 125 euro for the Palembang one, so I don't think I'll even try, with the US collectors outbidding each other. Even here that one could go for more, and it is worth it, it has a real wow-factor. Nevertheless, I really enjoyed seeing the two excellent Sumatran hilts, so thank you for thinking of me.:) It is also an eye-opener that a Palembang carver carved the arms and legs 'open' like that and with so much fine scrollwork. I suspect it may have been by a carver from north Java or Madura, where that kind of work is seen a lot. Carvers and keris smiths did travel.[/QUOTE]
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