Quote Originally Posted by rhensley View Post
I've seen several different razors with ivory scales and some are snow white and some cream colored and one that i just acquired is kind of pinkish. Does anyone have an idea of why the different shades of scales. I would have thought that they ivory would be so hard that dying them would be almost impossible. Now back in the day when i smoked and drank a lot of wine it was hard to get the stain out my original teeth but to my knowledge Elephants didn't smoke or drink and if they had a grass stain they would be greenish. anyone have any ideas.
When the tusks were cut into scales they were white, but with time it turned colored. The yellow is usually from oils, pink/blue/green from the linking of the storage box. Snow white is from cleaning it up, e.g. peroxide or UV exposure, for example by leaving it on sunlight.