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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 123579, member: 360&quot;]&quot;Ivorine&quot;, &quot;French Ivory&quot; etc, are all names for CELLULOID.</p><p><br /></p><p>...which, I believe, this is. It doesn&#039;t look like ivory at all. I reckon it&#039;s celluloid. Celluloid being the wonder-material of the day, I wouldn&#039;t be surprised to see it paired with silver. Celluloid certainly existed back in 1880,&nbsp; so they&#039;re probably the original handles. </p><p><br /></p><p>Celluloid was invented in the 1850s or 60s as a cheap replacement for real ivory, so it was designed to look as much like ivory as possible, but you can never make a copy look like the real thing...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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