I agree with Komo; it is a carving in the shape of a tiger claw; likely carved from ivory.
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Does look like a close match. I note that the linked knife is "hand crafted by the team of Damascus Knives Shop (Pakistan)."
Could be - if it was a craftsperson/blacksmith/knifemaker, putting in this much work, we'd certainly expect it to be marked. There appears to be...
On the surface of the blade, that is; the wavy edges on the back of the blade, and on the liners, would be called file-work. That's a nice knife;...
Yes; the applied decorations look very much like Fimo to me also; this type of construction would be typical of craft-fair items of the 1980s to...
Yes; the presence of multiple copies is a clear sign that an item is not one-of-a-kind, pretty much by definition.
I'm sorry, but the terms real and fake don't really apply; better terms would be reproduction versus original. NBGirl's item is not an original,...
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