To add on to Green's translation / transliteration of the first handle, it is the Shahada as he has said, but it is truncated. Instead of "...Muhammad ar-rasoolallah" (Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah) it is shortened to just "Muhammad ar-rasoolu" (.. is The Prophet).
I don't recognise what's on the Celebes ivory handle. It kinda looks like Sanskrit, or a script derived from it.
I also don't recognise the last photo as any script at all.
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