Marius, the pendok is the real deal, not some sort of machine produced garbage. No idea how old it is, if its mamas (unlikely) its pre-WWII, if its brass with poor quality plate its pretty recent, but it was made by hand and in the same way that this type of pendok has been made for a very long time. It might also be white brass. But its real, and really pretty fair quality.
Same goes for the wrongko.
Mendak? ugh!
Blade? nice quality current production, probably no core, but then the very few old ones of these I've handled didn't have a core either.
Some pamor motifs cannot be produced with a core, like buntel mayat for instance --- well, that's an untrue statement, they can be produced with a core, but I've never seen one with a core, and I very much doubt that they ever were made with a core.
All in all, not a bad keris --- except for that disaster of a mendak --- but its not old. It is artistically not a bad effort.
Oh yeah, the dhapur is legitimate. Absolutely.
If one's taste is orientated to antiques it is obviously unacceptable.
If one's taste is orientated towards keris, and all that this implies, it is very acceptable.
Then of course we have the question of value difference between a current era production and an old example of something well made and rare:- this difference can be heart stopping.
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