Sometimes, after the blade passes through a few owners' hands, nobody's sure of the origins anymore. The 1st seller may have represented it correctly, but after a while, new owners probably went "...well, this is probably a Balinese keris...", and eventually, it became "...this is a Balinese keris..."
And functional or not, don't swing it at anything or anyone... It will be 'painful' for all involved...
