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As Roy said, ivory was always pinned collarless.
If you have a loupe or magnifying glass, bone quite often have small pores and ivory has a cross grain. Hard to describe. Also always very thin and...

You would be hard pressed to tell the difference between Kauri, swamp Kauri and ancient Kauri.
Ancient Kauri might be a little darker maybe. Ancient Kauri is carbon dated from reliable sources.
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It is quite soft, but very nice timber to work with. Kauri was used a lot in boat building.
Looks quite nice turned, would make a nice brush handle.

Thought for sure you got one when I seen that Phrank. Pretty sure mine was end of line, 27mm.

That is an impressive save.

The ivory disks are different sizes, so you know what way they curl. The lignum vitae are hard to come by now, they are collectable in their own right.

Sent from a moto x far far away...

Got any old ivory scales lying around sharptonn? Could do with a whole top set while your on a roll...

Nice work on them scales Rez, well done.

Hope you got somewhere good to hunker down Hirlau, that looks nasty.

Great bikes, a mate of mine had an old 2 stroke we used to thrash around. That thing was crazy fast and always tried to throw ya. More fun than a reject race horse.

That pipe is way cool, like it a lot.

Looking good substance, but you gonna need someone to test it out. As a favour to you, I am willing to take the chance. No thanks necessary, just send it over the ditch. Even better, drop it at me...

Yes, I didn't mean to make it sound like I was trying to encourage anything illegal, but seems crazy to not be able to purchase a razor with ivory scales that are obviously original, or for that...

I don't think the average Joe at the post office would know the difference between ivory and plastic. The first razor I got with ivory scales I thought they were celluloid. It wasn't until I read...