Scandanavian/finnish pair

[Dmitry]

Originally Posted by Rick

The pommel and cross guard are marine ivory or whalebone and the grip is supposedly Baleen. The big processing vessels had extensive machine shops and I believe this one was made in one of them.

I have not seen any mentions of baleen used as handles for knives. The examples I've seen were used in corset busks, but a busk is a lot thinner than a knife handle, and looks different; the busks I've seen don't have the shine of the handle of your knife. If I didn't know better, I'd call it horn, but now I'm curious.
I just read this article from the VA MAriners Museum: https://www.marinersmuseum.org/2018/04/whale-tale/
Inconclusive...

The Dahlgren sales brochure possibly lists the handle materials?