jambiya dagger

[Adriboy]

Originally Posted by kai

Hello Adrian,

Welcome to the forum!



Yes, this is the only way to verify rhino horn. Look for surfaces which are reasonably smooth and close to vertical to the "grain" of the horn. In your example this would be the pommel end of the hilt, for example.

While there are a few hints which may point to your hilt being from rhino (texture at the upper corners of the attached close-up), I am not yet convinced that it really is rhino: the appaearance of the more obvious cracks in the hilt as well as the "blonde" streak at the gripping area do look more like "common" horn to me.

Regards,
Kai

Strangely that many common horn in Indonesia, and many tradional people have those in their own house.. The local deer, bull or buffalo and cow, goat,sheep even ivory horn.. All these animal not look the same structures like this hilt structure (under magnifier glass)..

And about using flashlight camera to take photo that can picture the fibrous structures and see the orange glow, are there special setting before we take photos? Maybe must have special light or standard with pocket digital camera, about ISO feature, Macro, zooming, picture size and else... Thank you then..