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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 4204172, member: 5833&quot;]The round one is the one from the link Cheryl posted right before that is being offered as pressed horn. The second pic is the back of your brooch.&nbsp; To my eye, from the back the 2 do not look like the same material &amp; yours still looks like bog oak to me.&nbsp; On the other hand, the central elements on both brooches look made by the same process, in the same material, perhaps from the same manufacturer.&nbsp; I have no trouble believing the plaquettes are pressed horn.&nbsp; I just think they may have been set into brooches of different materials, including pressed horn, jet &amp; bog oak.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not making much headway because they all still just look black to me, but in trying to do some eye training, found this great site:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.modip.ac.uk/search?search=pressed%20horn&amp;page=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.modip.ac.uk/search?search=pressed%20horn&amp;page=0" rel="nofollow">https://www.modip.ac.uk/search?search=pressed horn&amp;page=0</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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