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Robert Fead Mosely & Co. R F Mosely was born in 1841 in London, moved to sheffield in 1856 where he was apprenticed by George Oates, and set up on his own...

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Bone - no doubt about it - you can even see some open channels that carried nerves and capillaries - ivory does not have that. Remarkably clean though - they usually get either bunged-up...

No - not at all. I have bone scales that are really thin - as thin as some thin ivory scales. One Joseph Rodgers I have has bone scales as thin as any ivory I have seen.

Using the magnifier that...

Those are bone scales - the hole at the wedge end just under the pinning is typical. That along with the washers (collars) used with the pins is all the ID necessary for me, at any rate.

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