Turkish knife for ID, comment

[DaveA]

Thank you both You’ve given me the info I needed to remember. This was a forlorn gem among a collection of various contemporary knives at an estate auction. No one bid against me. I feel like I rescued an old dog when everyone else was taking home the puppies.

Any ideas about identifying the hilt material? It resembles a saifani hilt on a jambiya from Yemen in my collection.

Dave A.