Never seen this one

There doesn't seem to be any artist markings at all , front or back. The handle material is also a mystery to me. Its an off white color with a grain apperance almost like a very tightly grained piece of wood.
From the side the grains are parallel, from the top it's a really ragged circular pattern.
 
Sounds like micarta, which is a laminate.
 
I don't think it's micarta, it's too smooth, doesn't have the fiber look from the sides that micarta does.
 
Ok, there's a knife on ebay, A Schrade florist pattern knife with ivory celluloid? handles. It's a "say it with flowers" knife (wasn't someone on this forum looking for one of these?). Anyway, this seems to be the same material that my handle is made of. You can see the grainy pattern that I was refering to. Kind of interesting that a handle material that Schrade was using wound up on a 171UH, was this material available to the general public?
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Hmmm,

Celluloid is pretty uneconomical and takes some precautions, for just one knife. Linen micarta can buff up pretty smoothly...but the hairline crack (?) doesn't look/sound like either celluloid or micarta to me. Smooth bone? Wood with some kind of laminate/resin?
Just musing here.

Interesting knife.

Bill
 
Ok, here's another photo of the handle, it's really hard to get the detail over the camera glare. It's not quite as white as it appears in the picture. Eric
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If someone went through such trouble to customize the knife up the way they did, it could quite possibly be elaphant ivory. The cracks and "grain" pattern look like ivory or linen micarta to me, but the cracks it what makes me lean towards ivory. Just my .02
 
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