Help ID the ethnic origin of this knife handle

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Originally Posted by Ibrahiim al Balooshi

That has to be agreed by all since; William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric Anthony Sykes in Shanghai based their designs on concepts which the two men initiated before World War II while serving on the Shanghai Municipal Police in China.

However my thought was that stiletto daggers of the previous century and before will lead you to much more fertile soil in studying the general subject and still remain in the domain of Ethnographic.

I understand what you are saying Ibrahiim , but it is not the stiletto dagger that interests me in this case , it is the geographic origin of of the handle of this specific example .... and that is clearly within the ethnographical domain .

[Robert]

I hope that you do not mind, but I have cropped your photo to show the hilt and the numbers a little better. The biggest problem I see in trying to identify where this was made is that anyone could have seen this style of hilt on another piece, liked it and had a copy cast and mounted to a blade they already had. Posting a few close-ups that show all of the stampings on the hilt might also be of help in trying to identify the origin of this piece.

Best,
Robert

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Originally Posted by Robert

I hope that you do not mind, but I have cropped your photo to show the hilt and the numbers a little better. The biggest problem I see in trying to identify where this was made is that anyone could have seen this style of hilt on another piece, liked it and had a copy cast and mounted to a blade they already had. Posting a few close-ups that show all of the stampings on the hilt might also be of help in trying to identify the origin of this piece.

Best,
Robert

Thank you Robert , that is a very good point and excellent suggestion ... as soon as I am back home I will do that .