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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 3522356, member: 2844"]Yes, I am.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /> He is a very nice guy who lives out in the country about 30k northeast of me. He owns several big farm buildings which are filled to the rafters with Indonesian imports. He imports it all himself, Madurese furniture, Balinese carvings, etc. He also sells keris and keris parts, all pricey. </p><p>He is a seller of keris, has knowledge of keris, but is not a keris expert. Like many traders he marries keris parts in a way that is considered disrespectful to the authenticity and the symbolism of the keris, something an expert would never do.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I do. Vanna Ghiringhelli writes good books, with mouth watering photography. She is a university trained arms specialist and has a scientific approach.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a book I always recommend to starting keris collectors. It is "The Kris, a Passion from Indonesia", by Jean Greffioz. </p><p>Jean is a French collector, he bought a keris hilt from me years ago when I still sold keris through a Dutch site. His book is written purely from a collector's viewpoint, and it includes all Indonesian keris regions, and information on other types of knives and daggers as well.</p><p>His knowledge of Indonesian history is a bit lacking, but his knowledge of keris is good, and it is a nice book, an easy read, with very useful information. He published it himself years ago in a limited edition, so you will have to hunt for an antiquarian copy. I paid 25 euro for my signed copy, but that was many years ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 3522356, member: 2844"]Yes, I am.:D He is a very nice guy who lives out in the country about 30k northeast of me. He owns several big farm buildings which are filled to the rafters with Indonesian imports. He imports it all himself, Madurese furniture, Balinese carvings, etc. He also sells keris and keris parts, all pricey. He is a seller of keris, has knowledge of keris, but is not a keris expert. Like many traders he marries keris parts in a way that is considered disrespectful to the authenticity and the symbolism of the keris, something an expert would never do. Yes, I do. Vanna Ghiringhelli writes good books, with mouth watering photography. She is a university trained arms specialist and has a scientific approach. There is a book I always recommend to starting keris collectors. It is "The Kris, a Passion from Indonesia", by Jean Greffioz. Jean is a French collector, he bought a keris hilt from me years ago when I still sold keris through a Dutch site. His book is written purely from a collector's viewpoint, and it includes all Indonesian keris regions, and information on other types of knives and daggers as well. His knowledge of Indonesian history is a bit lacking, but his knowledge of keris is good, and it is a nice book, an easy read, with very useful information. He published it himself years ago in a limited edition, so you will have to hunt for an antiquarian copy. I paid 25 euro for my signed copy, but that was many years ago.[/QUOTE]
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