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That does help! The moral to the story is I need to get my hands on a piece of genuine tortoise shell. :D

How do you know the tortoise is tortoise? It looks exactly like most of the dyed horn I've seen!

Excellent info, thank you!

Considering that horn and shell are both laminar keratin, I'd expect it to be very difficult to tell the difference... I would've thought the main indicator would be...

I got a razor in a batch of other stuff the other day -- a Crown Cutlery Co., 6/8 rattler grind (faux-frameback) in what I thought were imitation tortoise-shell scales.

I've got 5 razors in scales...