Unusual pamor

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Originally Posted by Rick

Does this keris have an iron core?

Yes, this is something I had wondered about even from the seller's photographs, as the pamor seemed to go right to the edges of the blade around the full periphery.

Now that I have the blade to hand I'm none the wiser; I can't see a clear separation of core from pamor on either face or anywhere along the margins.

These additional photos might help to show that.

I did think from the seller's images that this might be a "core-less" decorative blade, which I had read about before, in which case the apparent age of the blade (even in seller's images, the patina was evident) intrigued me.