Thanks Alan, Ganjawulung for spending time on this keris.
Just to share a bit more on what I heard about the origin of this keris. This was given to a Singaporean who had helped build a new Mosque for a village in Java. The village headman gave this and another keris as a token of appreciation to the person, and he kept them for many years until a couple of years ago when he decided to sell them. Hence, what Alan has said about kerises being made by pandai away from the centres of power could be quite applicable in this case.
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