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Originally Posted by nacho
I agree with Spunjer. It is a binangon from Iloilo, Panay Island, Philippines. Pre-WW2. The scabbard is wrapped in sheets of thin carabao horn. We often mistake it for tortoise shell. The art of carving sheets of carabao horn is now lost.
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Hello Nacho,
thank you very much for your detailed input. I also have been sure that it is thin carabao horn. I know tortoise shell from indonesian keris and it look different. When Battara write that it is tortoise shell I have thought that it is from a different tortoise.
Detlef