Hello Rick,
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The more I look at this piece the more I see a very strange Sumatran keris masquerading as a Moro piece .
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Nobody here suggested it to be a Moro piece (and I doubt the seller would care to distinguish between a Malay keris sundang and a Moro kris even if this were a full-sized blade!).
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If we removed the handle and blade stirrup what would we have ? 
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The scabbard as well as the sorsoran could as well be from the Malay Peninsula AFAIK; the VOC blade does suggest a Sumatran origin though.
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I'd love to know where this composite blade was forged .
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Me too!
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Bill, do we have a blade length ?
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Overall length - 48 cm or 19"
Blade width - 2.4 cm or 7/8"
blade length - 35 cm or 13 3/4"
Thickness of blade at handle - 1.4 cm or 1/2"
Handle length - 11 cm or 4 3/8"
Width at ganga - 7 cm or 2 1/2"
Regards,
Kai