It finally arrived! It's in terrific shape but the hilt's a little wobbly. I'll take better pictures later, but I took pics of two things I immediately noticed (apologies for the blurriness)
1: there's diagonal lines along the spine by the hilt. They only continue for a few inches, the rest is flat.
2: the back scale of the hilt is definitely wood, but I think the decorated front side might be bone or perhaps wood covered with something?
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