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Originally Posted by Newsteel
It looks to me that the wrangka is not timoho. I could see the flashing grain like kemuning wood. The contrast dark/black pattern on the wood I found here is not like a typical timoho.  |
There are many different varieties of Timoho wood, some people believing that each type has it's own talismanic powers. I believe the spotting is referred to as "Pelet":
http://old.blades.free.fr/keris/intr...a/warangka.htm
That being said, this wood is sometimes faked with stains or paint. This is often easy to tell on close inspection. These photos are not very clear, so i wouldn't make any judgement from them.
Age is always a difficult thing to pin down with keris, especially solely from photos and even more so when the photos aren't that clear. Your keris doesn't appear to be a modern age contemporary keris, but it also doesn't seem too old. Could be late 19th - early 20th century.
It may just be the photos, but the hilt looks newer than the blade and the sheath.