That's an easy one Jean.
These wrongkos definitely have no place in Solo.
A wrongko is not just a thing to put a keris in.
Since at least the first quarter of the 19th century a wrongko is an item of dress that had and has prescribed forms for defined wear.
In its function as an item of dress it doesn't even need to have a proper keris in it. I've seen wrongkos being worn with cut out pieces of tin in them, in place of a keris blade. Not even flat iron, but tin, like a piece of an oil container cut to shape. This is fairly common amongst poor people. I have even seen a piece of cardboard used to support the jejeran, instead of a keris blade.
As an item of dress, the keris itself doesn't matter much, it is the perception that the wearer has a keris of the proper type in the proper place that is important.
Odd shaped wrongkos have no place as items of dress.
I never saw Agus working on or with one of these calendar wrongkos.
In my opinion you can eliminate the possibility of this form of wrongko being used in Surakarta.
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