Keris ID

[David]

Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey

David, I tend to disagree that we can leave this discussion up in the air.

What i meant by leave it at that was that you and i, two people who have admitted that we don't know all that much about keris outside the Jawa/Bali/Sumatra nexus (and even there i know relatively little compared to you) could "probably leave it at that". I was in no way suggesting that people who understand these areas better than us should not share their knowledge on this keris if they have any.
That said, we do have a keris that obviously has been placed in a sheath that was not made for it, nor that anyone bothered to properly refit. That sheath seems very likely to have a gandar that is not original to the sheath. And not knowing enough about it, to my eyes the hilt seems oversized and out of proportion to the ensemble as a whole. So what i see is a keris that was very possible assembled from parts from numerous origins. I do, however, welcome being proved wrong on that if somebody can show a single origin for this ensemble as a whole.