Quote Originally Posted by thebigspendur View Post
True, but what I was referring to is the fact that most of the celluloid stuff has lines in it to mimic real ivory. To the uninitiated the presence of lines might be taken for genuine stuff when it's not.
+1, early on in my razor collecting I had a couple that were faux ivory and couple that were the real Mc'Coy. What I noticed was that the celluloids pattern was uniform from end to end and on each scale. The genuine article was somewhat random with some variation in the grain. I've had some ivory scaled razors where the grain was only visible holding the scales at an angle to catch the light. Straight on it was not apparent. Others stand out to the naked eye quite readily. Interesting stuff. I wonder how much of the vintage production of ivory scales came from elephant tusk and how much came from other sources of ivory ?