...is ivory, imo. Those cracks are typical of ivory, and as 2many said, you are likely to find cross-hatched Schreger lines on the end of the handle.
I will look for schreger lines when I get home. If it is celluloid then I wonder why it is a non symmetrical shape. It looks more 'carved' than...
...If the knife handle is ivory, the best place to look for evidence of schreger lines would be on the end, which would be a cross section of a tusk.
If you mean the Schreger lines that give that engine turned look, they do not show in all sections of tusk. Is this what you mean? [ATTACH]...
Ivory, very thin “waffle”, traditional support for these! Incredible bargain for that beauty!!!
...know if they used shell then, I thought possibly ivory but I can’t see any schreger lines as the paint seems to be covering all of the surface...
They look OK to me. They are best shown on a flat cross section of the tusk, which is what we have here. [ATTACH] Compare - [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The look of Schreger lines seems off to me, too continuous, too perfectly parallel. [ATTACH]
...a few pieces of better then. I can’t find the crosshatching or schreger on these. They are approx 2” long and have no clasp. They appear to...
I dunno, those sure look like schreger lines to me...........and I think the color for ivory looks right.....to ME.....but then there are others...
...They are all various sizes and not uniform. I think I see schreger lines on the tiny off white beads The turquoise, or whatever, is so...
...make a clanking noise when dropped (by mistake), I don’t see any schreger lines yet but then almost feel like some sort of plastic. Weird!!!...
...to be ivory, but it's awfully big for a piece of tusk and no schreger lines to be seen. I've seen lots of similar items (minus the visible...
The anonymous woman I have that is similar to your Isabella came apart today so I could weigh it in my hand without the mount and see the back &...
Yo, that's what I was thinking! I thought maybe I was just seeing things.
plastic schreger lines ?
...and not all at the same time. I don’t see mold marks but not schreger or anything else like that. It’s also curved slightly Please help and...
I think we haven't seen the right angle to see Schreger lines, but the other lines are there. I hope I'm wrong though, and it isn't ivory. The...
...it in hand, there can be no doubt. Ivory looks like ivory, has Schreger lines; marble looks like marble, has characteristic veining. None of...
...While Schreger lines only appear on tusk cross sections, if the section of material used is from the interior, not the outer perimeter, you...
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