GOLD & SUASA PALEMBANG KERIS
Item #W0211
Overall length: 47 cm / 18.5 inch
Weight: 400 grams
Blade length: 37.5 cm / 14.8 inch
Blade thickness: 13 mm (base), 4 mm (middle), 1 mm (tip)
Blade width: 85 mm (base), 21 mm (middle), 5mm (tip)
Palembang keris, early 1800's.
Hilt:
Ivory hilt in top condition / One small old crack (not working) / No break offs / Glossy old patina / Mendak and selut from gold with stones and suassa.
Blade:
Sturdy keris blade with very nice pamor / Original old gold decorated cover on top of the gangya (some small pieces of gold missing because of its old age).
Sheath:
Wooden sheath in good condition.
Condition:
As seen on photos, highly collectable keris in very good preserved condition.
Additional information:
By the conquest of the Dutch in 1821, the production of kerisses in the Palembang area was put to a stop, as the Dutch prohibited people in that area to wear kerisses and after that the craft quickly became extinct.
This means that most of the Palembang kerisses probably must have been produced before 1821.
But fact is that even till +/- 1850 there still was opposition in those areas.
Conquest of Palembang, Sumatra in Indonesia, by Lieutenant-General Baron de Kock, June 24, 1821