Most of the Katipunan pieces like this usually have a core of horn and are wrapped with twisted wire and/or a band of metal spiraled around the hilt of horn. Also the tang goes all the way through the hilt. Something else I have noticed is that the blades of officer's pieces seem to have a diamond shaped cross section.
Spanish daggers that are similar do not seem to have the spiraled metal and the hilts are made more of wood.
In this case the spiraled metal is gone and I would call this hilt Spanish but everything else is Katipunan. For this reason Katipunan symbols are more valuable IMHO.
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