A pretty piece of work GP.
The hilt is not ivory, it is bone or deer antler, more likely to be bone I think.
The "keris" is not in my opinion, a keris.
It is a keris-like object where the form of a keris has been used as a canvas for decorative design.
What is the blade material? It almost looks like a casting of some type. I have not seen anything precisely the same, but the pewter industry in Selangor, Malaysia has produced both small & large keris in pewter.
If it is not Selangor it might be a Madura production. The hilt is current era Bali, not made as a keris hilt, but art or craft work made in the form of a keris hilt.
It is pretty, but we are not looking at a keris here.
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