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Ivory. Up close, you should smell a burnt tooth smell like at the dentists office, after touching the hot pin to the scale. Does the black mark wipe right off? It should, with ivory. The hot pin...

Sham, it is definitely not celluloid. Your hot needle (was it glowing red?) would have vaporized celluloid with a "POOF" sound and white chemical smoke. So, your scales are either very fine grained...

Beautiful crisp, clean etching on that blade-looks deeper than most etchings. I can't really tell if the scales are ivory from the photos (ivory is hard to photograph well, at least for me) but I am...