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Originally Posted by spiral
It looks like a barking or water deer antler from Nepal,Assam, Burma, Thailand ,Veitnam or even Indonesia.
Good old kukri sometimes have them as karda handles. The Naga use them on necklaces, probaly other things to.
Spiral
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I think the antlers are from Formosan (Taiwanese) barking deer. So probably the antler was added in Taiwan at a later date.