Hello Marco,
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The hilt was on the pesi of an an old blade with a Cirebon sheath and the Yogya seller had only very old keris all from Cirebon area.
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Was he of Cirebonese ancestry? It's rare to have such info on provenance available, indeed!
Still, these hilt types may not be limited to Cirebon since there are also a bunch of keris from old European collections that combine such hilts with scabbards attributed to other sultanates along the Javanese North coast.
Regards,
Kai