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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 256169, member: 2844"]Thanks, I grew up with keris and live in a keris loving country. I know value isn't obvious to the untrained eye. But I know which pamors and dapurs are rare, so no costly errors here. </p><p>I know the book, and if I were limited to the English language I would have bought it. It is one of the best older books on Javanese keris in English, and he used a lot of older Dutch books as well as Javanese sources. He certainly did a wonderful job, although limiting himself to Java.</p><p>I am Dutch, so I can read the books he used. I also read several other European languages, and have some knowledge of Indonesian. I have some of the best books available, in Indonesian, Dutch, German, Danish, French, as well as the late K.S. Jensen's famous Krisdisk. </p><p>I mainly collect Madurese keris, and the little information available on those is often unreliable. That is one of the main reasons I am writing a book on keris myself, and also to continue the tradition of Martin Kerner and K.S. Jensen of reconnecting keris information with the spiritual and cultural origins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 256169, member: 2844"]Thanks, I grew up with keris and live in a keris loving country. I know value isn't obvious to the untrained eye. But I know which pamors and dapurs are rare, so no costly errors here. I know the book, and if I were limited to the English language I would have bought it. It is one of the best older books on Javanese keris in English, and he used a lot of older Dutch books as well as Javanese sources. He certainly did a wonderful job, although limiting himself to Java. I am Dutch, so I can read the books he used. I also read several other European languages, and have some knowledge of Indonesian. I have some of the best books available, in Indonesian, Dutch, German, Danish, French, as well as the late K.S. Jensen's famous Krisdisk. I mainly collect Madurese keris, and the little information available on those is often unreliable. That is one of the main reasons I am writing a book on keris myself, and also to continue the tradition of Martin Kerner and K.S. Jensen of reconnecting keris information with the spiritual and cultural origins.[/QUOTE]
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