Flea Market find

[A. G. Maisey]

All true David, but I tend to regard all of this style of keris as Bali, the reason being that although it may have originated in Lombok, it would have done so from a Balinese cultural base in an area that the Balinese still living in Bali regarded as Balinese.

To me, this one looks more Bali than Lombok, but I don't really know of any really distinguishing blade features that separate one from the other. Generally speaking, if I see a Bali style keris that has an acid cleaned blade rather than a polish cleaned blade, I will opt for Lombok. If I see a Bali style keris that demonstrates some sort of extremism in some way, I will opt for Lombok.

Stock standard Bali style and evidence of a polished finish --- no matter how deteriorated this may be --- will have me leaning to Bali origin.

But it often is guess work.

Nice thing to find in a flea market.It will restore very well indeed.