Thread: Ivory - how do you know

It's not plastic.

Not sure how much use these pics will be but:

The spots indicate bone, and are pores which have collected dust and debris and aged. Nice looking piece.

Yer, but I want ivory. I don't know why, I just do.

Honed up nicely. Shame about the pitting.

bone........

figured as much. one day.

Agree, its bone. Actually once you handle real ivory you would never mistake it for anything else again. Also each type of Ivory has a different structure which is how they can tell when you import stuff if its elephant or mammoth or hippo or whatever.

I have found that if the scales self destruct in my hands, they are most likely ivory.