Alan, i'm definitely not trying to force a answer out of you regarding origin of this keris. I have long been aware of your preferred concentration of study and that keris like this lie outside those parameters. I only responded to your statement that you saw this as a keris of the Bugis people because to my eyes this keris blade displays nothing that i would identify with what we generally accept as Bugis style blades.Yes, it is certainly diluar Jawa, but i'm sure that you don't believe everything outside Jawa is Bugis. It seems more influenced by Palembang blades than anything else.
Now when i hear the "whole kit & caboodle", it doesn't just mean the keris that we see before we remove the blade from the scabbard. It means everything, INCLUDING the blade that we see once we do remove it from the scabbard. Even so, i am not convinced that this sheath is a type that would be common to the Bugis culture. It's width is much thinner and it seems to have a form that puts me in mind of Minangkabau keris. Likewise the hiltcup. See the example below.
That said, i am much like you in this regard in that the majority of my focus in keris has been placed upon Jawa, Bali and to some extent Madura, so i really am operating more on feelings than solid fact here. But i would not be surprised to find that is South Sumatran, possibly Minang. I also suspect that the gandar is not simple a bad repair, but not at all the original sheath stem, which may have offered more clues to it's origin if it had been intact.
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