Featured teeny maori bone? pendant

for the sake of ones bottom bronners, i wouldn't want to put that to the test

tagua nut is as hard as ivory (bloody hard)

 

so again i'm afraid.......

 

it also fluoresces under uv as well (tagua)

 

Tagua Nut Jewelry: Nature's Sustainable Alternative to Ivory

 

I always love an excuse to run a UV flashlight around my darkened display cabinet, where there are objects made of elephant & walrus ivory, antler & tagua nut. What I see is that the materials that are basically tooth enamel - the ivories - soak up the light & look just about the same as they do in daylight. The antler pieces reflect it back brightly. The tagua nut carvings are variable, with outer layers glowing purple, while deeper in it behaves like ivory. I have had the experience of tagua nut splitting, probably along a growth line.




Still looks like bone to me. How does it react to UV?

 

Not sure anything could cope with Charles sitting up on it. Must have super physical properties.

 

why how dare you sir.........

when you say sitting up.........try thinking more.........vincent price

 

alot of that looks like filth to me bronners, heres the uv reaction

 

i'm not really having a go either.......... can be bloody hard to tell from photos sometimes,

 

Thought I didn't have anything made of bone, but poked around & found a few items. They absorb the UV too, so on that score can't differentiate between bone & inner tagua nut. If you think it's giving the appearance of bone due to grime, let's see it clean then.

 

o dear, i'm not about to have a clean off just to prove a point.......you really think i'm that petty bronwen ? (cunning devil emoji)

 

Ah, but are you generous enough to prove mine.

 

not tonight Mrs..............but i'm all done for xmas so apart from throwing stones at seagulls tomorrow......i got nothing to do

i'd like more than you to get to the bottom of this, so get ready for some forensic type photos tomorrow

 

Bring 'em on. I'm doing spectacularly well at finding ways to avoid writing cards.

 

well i think i see a similar like detective mind in your good self, so together we might solve this one boss

i just hope i don't wake up tomorrow bone idle

-detective charlie (on the case)