Guitar Info

Here's a Univox Eagle Bass which is basically a Japanese-built P-bass lookalike featuring an carved eagle in the top of the instrument.

I had a friend a few years back who had a Strat-type guitar featuring a dragon carving (it was a lovely playing guitar, by the way). It was of a very similar finish to this bass but bore the Aria brand name rather than Univox. I'm wondering if perhaps these could have came from the same factory?