The other one I used to have. While the hilt forms look like one of the Palembang forms, such kerises almost always have this figural hilt form, compared to the Palembang kerises, which are more commonly found with garuda hilts. I feel (yes, 'gut feel') that these sort of kerises are not Palembang kerises, but from 'off-centres' close to Palembang, much like the way off-central Javanese kerises are influenced by Solo and Yogya kerises, but bearing their own stylistic uniqueness.
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