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View Poll Results: Ivory, Bone, or Both?
They're ivory 8 72.73%
They're bone 1 9.09%
One's ivory & one's bone 0 0%
They're plastic (or other material) / don't know / don't care 2 18.18%
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Old 10-11-2008, 07:08 AM   #1 (permalink)
 
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Question Ivory, Bone or Both?

What do you think?

Also, take a look at this for identifying specific types of ivory by description http://www.uniclectica.com/conserva/ivory1.html If they are ivory, what creatures do you think lost their lives for these razors?



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Impossible to say from pictures. For Ivory you need to put it under magnification to see the geometry of the grain to tell the animal. Most vintage razors were elephant however there's also Narwhale, Walrus,Mammouth. Also fossilized Elk (they actually had Ivory tusks and modern elk have Ivory rear molars)
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