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Vern,

sometimes I visit Buddel. If his clients like, he uses also mammoth-ivory to create nice-looking scales for his custom-razors.
And I think also some other "artists" use mammoth-ivory for...

I found one with washers in my collection of ivory-scaled razors.
It is a Mappin & Webb.
Maybe she got a new pin sometimes, because there is only one washer at the side where the scale is cracked....

I think the pictures will show us detailled the differences between ivory and celluloid. Thanks for sharing.