Actually I find this blade not so fantastic. Of course 21 luk are really scarce, it appears to have original polish and stain. Yet amount it reached seems to be to high to me.
I will explain a little my points. The pictures of the other keris are raided from Artzi's site, this blade has "only" 17 luk, yet the problems and solutions for the sorsoran are similar.
On Artzi's blade greneng and jenggot are typical Bali, on Ebay blade they are rather small and week, compare to the short and big sogokan. Wadidang seems to be disturbed.
I am perhaps a little bit paranoic towards gonjos on Bali keris, yet on both examples they actually don't reach the quality of the blade, even on Ebay keris.
Regarding the pamor layers, on Ebay blade they are very thin and the thickness seems to be very uniform to me - please compare to the layers on Artzi's blade. Could this be a hint on sheets (or something similar) of industrially made pamor material, which would place this keris later then around 1900?
The sheath is old, yet the fit to the blade, from what I can see from the pictures, is not of high quality.
Hilt seems to me nothing really special, I would say post-1908.
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