This is interesting.
I first saw the Javanese style one on an old keris in a collection that had been bequeathed to the musium in the Mangkunegaraan in Solo. I later met an old m'ranggi who told me that the name of the style was Imam Bonjol, and that he had carved this style a few times before WWII.
Imam Bonjol was a 19th century hero in the struggle against Dutch colonialism.
He was from Sumatera.
I could never work out how a Javanese style hilt could finish up with the name of a Sumatran hero.
It looks to me as if the Javanese hilt is an adaptation of the Bugis type hilt we see in the ebay entry.
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