Everybody seems to be focussing on whether this is an old --- or "older" --- blade, or a recent blade.
Similarly there seems to be intense interest in the pamor.
Frankly, neither of these things grab my attention.
When a blade looks like this I simply cannot tell from a photo, especially a photo on a computer screen , if it has any age or not.
As for the pamor, this particular pamor is not uncommon in keris from a number of areas.
There are several things which do interest me:-
the gandik, the kembang kacang, the distance from the pesi to the sirah cecak, the form of the pesi, the form of the luk.
If I look at these things I do not see either Lombok or recent Madura.
I tend towards a classification of Madura pre WWII, but I am simply not prepared to give any firm opinion from photos.I doubt Lombok for a classification, but that is a hesitant doubt, it is not a firm statement.
As I have already said:- it is an interesting blade.
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