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Originally Posted by Marcokeris
In a Mrs. Vanna Ghiringhelli's article published some years ago on Arts of Asia magazine (tittle: keris hilt material) there is a hilt very very similar to this .
Prof. Ghiringhelli said this is a Cirebon hilt but ....i'm 
IMO this hilt COULD be comes from Sumbawa.
Please, there is some kerisforum member that could help me to give news about the origin?
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The hilt from Mrs Ghiringhelli is shown in page 55 (picture G 63) of the reference book from Martin Kerner "Keris-Griffe Aus Museeen Und Privatsammlungen" and it is very similar to Marco's piece indeed. It is included within the Bima hilts category although Martin does not describe it as depicting Bima and he also does not mention its estimated area of origin. He says that the piece is made from cast bronze.
Jean