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Ian
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Nice research on the Spanish Colonial/Philippines knife.

A sharpening steel is an interesting suggestion, although I don't recall seeing such an acute point on a carving steel before.

Just to follow up on the Chinese-influenced suggestion on the third hilt, attached are artistic representations of cranes. The circled examples show the head and neck in similar positions to the carved hilt. I'm not suggesting that the head on your hilt is that of a crane, but simply that the artistic style is similar. This is not uniquely Chinese, as Rick has shown with an example of a pheasant on a Lebanese knife hilt.

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