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Originally Posted by BluErf
This blade has a separate ganja, and does not seem to have been modified. General consensus when I showed this to fellow collectors is that it looks like a Javanese keris, but not sure where it came from.
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Dear BluErf,
The most 'suspicious' part of your blade, to decide whether it is Javanese or non-javanese lays on the form of 'ricikan' (details) in the "gandhik" (lower-front) part of the keris.
It is better to visually compare with these other straight kerises below -- with nearly similar "dhapur". I am showing you this time, four gandhik views of 2 (two) "jalak ngore" (with details of gandhik lugas or without 'sekar kacang', and with "pejetan", "tikel alis", "greneng"), one "jalak tilamsari" (gandhik lugas or without sekar kacang, pejetan, tikel alis, sraweyan and tingil or form of 'ri pandhan' almost in the end of the keris tail), and one common "tilamsari" (gandhik lugas, pejetan, tikel alis, one tingil in 'ri pandhan' in the end of the tail, but without greneng...)
Keris with such triangular "ada-ada" in the middle of the blade, usually has dhapur name of "jalak" in Java. (Actually, "jalak" is a kind of bird with medium beak and with triangular surface in their beak). Sorry, I am not able to explain it clearly in English...
IMHO, your blade is more "sumatran" in appearance, or other part of Nusantara or even Malay region...
GANJAWULUNG