You beat me to the draw Pak Gonjo. I had this ready to post and then went and had lunch.
Anyway---yes, this is a legitimate form of wrongko, it is wulan tumanggal, or wulan tinanggal, or pananggalan, or penanggalan, or according to some people, tanggalan.
I personally think that only wulan tumanggal is correct, which means "crescent moon".
It is an old form, found on the North Coast of Jawa, as Pak Gonjo advises, but it was also a form found in Central Jawa from the time of early Mataram through to the partition of Jawa.
Anything we might say about the blade is just speculation, but I'll throw my little bit of speculation into the ring too:- notice the way that the pamor has wandered off to one side, and is very badly distributed?
I reckon that the maker got this far with the blade, saw clearly what he had, threw his hands up in the air and said "b***er this! I'm not putting any more time into this thing!".
The jejeran is beautiful.
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