These keris where as mentioned Madura style keris and probably made in madura for the Dutch soldiers to bring back home. Especially Madura was very loyal to the Dutch. This loyalty is represented in some styles of the maduran ukiran full of Dutch symbolism
I already mentioned in another thread that these kind of keris are worth to find a place in a keris collection. A real keris blade in a mostly good carved but also a dress of lower quality of used wood representing a historical period. Until now i've seen two styles of this soldiers keris if i may call it so. Both styles are shown in this thread.
Here in Holland you couldn't enter an auction house or fleemarket without stumbling over some of these keris. Today they start to become more rare to find.
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