Rhino Horn Knobkerrie ?

[Tim Simmons]

I do not want to hijack Davids thread but I have just got to add this. These are old 18th century examples, I can show 20th century examples. There is a tradition of this sort of wood work. In one you see the same red and blue/black colour work. The head on the club/baton could some kind of holy trinity? is the script cyrillic? or an attempt at carving one of the two scripts seen on Ethiopian artifacts? The largest picture is Romanian and painted on glass.