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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 221523, member: 2844&quot;]Pleasure Caelestius.</p><p>I don&#039;t think the details are ivory, more likely bone. Maybe the inlay too, we&#039;d have to see detailed pictures to be able to judge that.</p><p>Buffalo horn is readily available and cheap in India, they wouldn&#039;t combine it with a prestigious material like ivory. Besides, most of these buffalo horn carvings are inlaid with bone.</p><p>You can recognise elephant ivory by even-sized lines of more and less yellow/whitish tones, and cross-hatching of these lines in parts:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mahjongtreasures.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F01%2FIMG_3601-1024x291.jpg&amp;sp=04468dce4493189ae1f2a33a03f54844" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Bone is far more even in colour, often white. Sometimes thin hairlines are visible that look like tiny scratches, sometimes little black spots or hairlines that are remnants of bloodvessels.</p><p>Mother-of-pearl is shiny, with a shimmer as you move it and often with a hint of colour.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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