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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 896631, member: 2844&quot;]I think you can still hope.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> Tagua is very tricky. It does show striations occasionally, but no cross-hatching:</p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/f724cdc2-5f06-4be9-9e91-9ed06eac2a01-jpeg.194614/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/hope-this-is-bakelite.40346/#post-836681" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/hope-this-is-bakelite.40346/#post-836681">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/hope-this-is-bakelite.40346/#post-836681</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.woodcraft.com/Images/products/400/128175.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://www.wood-database.com/tagua-nut/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.wood-database.com/tagua-nut/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wood-database.com/tagua-nut/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The beads have an ivory look, but the carving is of the quality generally seen on less exclusive materials like bone or tagua. These last two materials were used a lot for this type of necklace.</p><p>The greenish, almost translucent tinge of some of the beads is also seen on tagua. I have never seen that on ivory. The bead on the left in the detail below has that, along with some pretty wide banding, which is not ivory-like imo. And if ivory, I would expect cross-hatching in the centre of the bead on the right:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]199975[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The striation on this bead is interrupted by a burr (burl) kind of growth pattern, which is not ivory-like:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]199976[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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