Marius, i am afraid these gentlemen are correct. Your sewar hilt is not rhino. I posted the defining elements of rhino horn structure in my post #8. It's not simply a matter of what you call hair-like structure. That can be found in a lot of horn, which is basically keratin, the same substance that make up human hair. What you need to see in a hilt to identify it as rhino is these tightly packed tubular structures with a dot in the center of each tube.
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