Hello Timo, Thank you for your thoughts on this. When I first noticed this I did a search for any agricultural tools like tobacco knives or anything else I thought it could possibly be. The wood of the hilt is not the normal ash, oak or hickory that you would expect to find on most American made cutting tools. I remembered seeing a thread here on the forum that showed a parang bengkok and after a few searches found the one picture above. I put in a minimal bid on it thinking if it turned out to be of no great interest I could use it around the house for cutting brush. Needless to say I was quite surprised when my bid turned out to be the only one. Hopefully it will turn out to be a parang ginah or bengkok and not just an old weed wacker.
Again thank you for your reply and for the link to the other example.
Regards,
Robert