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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 10773069, member: 8267&quot;]Have you looked at it under magnification? With tortoiseshell or horn, the darker color&nbsp; is distributed as tiny dots (cells) of pigment. In most imitations the color will appear as a uniform wash/smear.</p><p><br /></p><p>It might be more than one material. The band forming the sides looks different than the top and bottom. Does it look the same in transmitted light?</p><p><br /></p><p>And the bottom looks less like tortoiseshell than the top.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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