Marcokeris,
You have a very nice keris, but I go with Alam Shah. The condition of your blade is a bugis keris with his first etch.
The Prince of the Netherlands who passed away was given a Bugis keris, just an example like yours but probably with a more royal dress. A member of the staff of his late royal higness was instructed how to take care for the keris because the prince wished that his keris was looked after with the ceremonial rules, just because of respect. The staff member cleaned every period the blade with lime juice. And as we know the lime juice fade away the black arsenic corosion of the iron. So the blade of the keris of his late royal highness must have been looked like the blade of Lew, maybe a bit darker because of the etching with lime juice and the residu of the still present arsenic on the blade.
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