Help to ID a dagger
 

Would you help me to ID this dagger, please.
The crossguard appears to be made of some sort of alabaster kind of material, pommel is of wood and grip section is of carved stone. Judging by the symbols I guess it may be of Korean origin but I am not too confident about it.

I cannot tell you where this dagger comes from but certainly doesn't have anything Korean in it.

From the photos the crossguard appears to be rhino horn and the blade appears to be made from a sword's repurposed blade.

Let's hope that others can tell you more.

Thanks for your opinion. You may well be right and crossguard is some sort of horn. I doubt this is rhino horn, though, as it would be too good.

The braided narrow rattan strips have a strong mainland SE Asian/southern Chinese flavor. The carved ivory(?) grip appears to have some Chinese influence also. A rhino guard is a bit of an anomaly, but rhino horn can be found via trade in some SE Asian areas (e.g., Malaysia)--buffalo horn is more common. The dagger blade with a central rib might suggest a Chinese, Indonesian, or even western influence (such as French).

An interesting dagger. Philip might be able to place it better for you. My best guess is SE Asian/southern Chinese, possibly from Vietnam (Cochin). It appears to have some age and might date to the period of French IndoChina.

On the other hand, I could be way off the mark. :)

Horn of Africa
 

The horn guard (Rhino?) and the domed pommel are quite similar to elements seen on Shotel handles.
A 'married' piece?

The grip looks more like bone than ivory to me, and has a certain African flavor in the carving. the pommel cap looks like copper to me, and again points to Africa, in my uninformed lack of expertise.

The blade was probably re-purposed. The rattan stumps me.

Interesting knife. Where did you find it?

The blade looks like it has it's central 'ridge' from a slight overlap of two blade halves forge welded together, an african technique.:confused:

It really looks like a fairly recent made-up piece (perhaps by a hobbyist ?). The blade from an African Shona spearhead or knife, the carved bone hilt with a mixture of Chinese and African inspired decoration. All artificially stained to give the impression of age.

When I mentioned 'african' above, I was thinkng 'Shona', as in my isizenze stabbing axe/ or a bakatwa knife/sword (not mine).