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Okay gotcha ... so then perhaps it *is* vulcanized rubber, and thank you very much for the help :-)

That third pic is a really good pic ... you are seeing what I would see holding it my hand under the light. Is that grain, or is that the "brown" you are talking about ?

Hmm ...

Okay so there are no grains anywhere in it that I can see, but it's also not turning brownish anywhere either. I mean it doesn't feel like any kind of rubber I would recognize, but then...

Hmm ... another forum said it probably wasn't ebony either, but black horn (over at AAPK, I hadn't previously realized they had a razor section lol). They also placed it at late 1880's 1890's.

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Hello there ... first post :) I recently began trying to become knowledgable about collectible things a person would see at estate sales (to either collect them or resell them, etc), and I got my...