Thread: Ivory vs Bone vs fake Ivory under Black light examples needed

Originally Posted by puketui41

Hi fellas,

Not hijacking, I asked Willis' permission to add this to the thread. Can anyone tell me if this is bone or ivory? Definitely not plastic.
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It is neither my friend, its Horn. Nice razor.

Originally Posted by Martin103

It is neither my friend, its Horn. Nice razor.

i concur. polished horn, my friend.

Thats two for horn, does anyone else have an opinion?

Originally Posted by puketui41

Thats two for horn, does anyone else have an opinion?

Horn. Not a doubt.

Agreed....

Ok, time to 'fess up: its camel bone. I know this because I made them. Sorry for the trickery, I just wanted to make a point: looks can be deceptive. i'd never thought they looked like horn but I can see why others would. To touch them, or see them up close they look and feel like well handled antique ivory with none of the tell tale signs of bone. I like the black light idea, I'll be interested to see if it shows up the deception in these scales. Get those test photos on the go Willis! Sorry again for the deception folks, no insult intended. Ok Willis, you can have your thread back now me old mate

Sneaky

Here are some pix of ivory & one bone .......... you can see the divots in the bone against the ivory in the first two pix, the last pic if two ivories ;

The divots is the bone are called Haversion Canals,Since bone is living tissue it is were blood and nerve roots feed the bone.
Like Ivory they will flash purple light under U.V light.

Originally Posted by puketui41

Ok, time to 'fess up: its camel bone. I know this because I made them. Sorry for the trickery, I just wanted to make a point: looks can be deceptive. i'd never thought they looked like horn but I can see why others would. To touch them, or see them up close they look and feel like well handled antique ivory with none of the tell tale signs of bone. I like the black light idea, I'll be interested to see if it shows up the deception in these scales. Get those test photos on the go Willis! Sorry again for the deception folks, no insult intended. Ok Willis, you can have your thread back now me old mate

tricked me there. definitely does not look like ivory, but could have fooled me if you said it was horn. Nice polish on the scales though.