When I saw this one I thought it was not very old. The hilt, in particular, reminded me of some of the recent horn hilts on pira, notably the way the horn cavity has been covered with a piece cut to fill the hole at the end of the hilt. That said, I don't believe this is a sword from the Sulu Archipelago but rather from Malaysia, as the seller indicated.
Nobody has commented so far on, what seems to me, an unusual arrangement of the luk, which occupy roughly in the middle third of the blade. I don't recall seeing another example where the curves start so far away from the hilt, but perhaps our keris experts can comment on how commonly this occurs.
Ian.
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