Help ID modern Dha(?) with carved ivory handle

[bernard_levine]

Hello folks

"Newbie" here. (New here, anyway).

I've been asked to ID and maybe even appraise this evidently well made but oddly impractical seeming knife.
It appears to be a recent souvenir, but of high quality. It has lost its scabbard.

The owner tested the blade with a magnet, and it did not stick.
He suspects it is bronze, or perhaps patinated brass.
I don't know.











I asked a collector of Javanese and Malayan edged weapons,
and he said it is probably not from there.
He said Burma might be a possibility, as the ferrule shape is reminiscent of a Dha,
and there is quite a bit of commercial ivory carving done in Burma now.

For example see picture 33 here.

http://www.asianart.com/articles/ivory/index.html

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So... do you recognize it? Seen something similar on your travels? Have a guesstimate of value?

Thanks!

BRL...

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