This is an honest late 19th - early 20th century.
It is from the Maguindanao tribe on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.
The front is fine and original, the back end might be a little bent. What you are missing on this blade is what is called the baka-baka, or a clamp that is behind the front part of the base of the blade, matching the other silver clamp on the "tail end".
FYI - the pommel seems very worn in the pictures.
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