i thought the same thing. especially on the back of one, they look more engraved in but could be decorational theres parts that really do look...
Wow, they are beautiful. Great find. There is something about the schreger markings on his back and on the bottom that gives me pause, the store...
funny how they look like ivory........ and in your location , not unusual...... lots of schreger
Maybe it's the lighting in the photo,etc.To me it looks like resin bubbles in the circled areas. [ATTACH]
...out or something?! Maybe they’ve gotten great at replicating the schreger lines in resin though. The second two almost look too good. For now...
Well, I can't see schreger lines (which doesn't mean they aren't there - often difficult to see in photos), but the concentric cracks on the...
Schreger lines are found on cross sections, often the rounded carved parts. So if this is elephant or mammoth ivory there are plenty of parts...
...mammal ivory...an' the ends are fully carved, so won't yield the schreger lines necessary for elephant source. I'll snap a few more pics,...
I'm not seeing schreger lines so it may not be ivory. I also don't see the speckles you usally see in bone. The faces just don't look Inuit or...
:playful: I'm not seeing Schreger lines though, only striations.;) Schreger lines are cross-hatched lines.
I think you're seeing Schrager lines the same way I'm seeing bubbles.
You would only see Schreger lines on rounded areas like the shoulders and possibly the hat, both of which are too decorated to see. I do see faint...
The set is much older then that. My Grandmother only left the states once since she left Hungary and came here in Jan 1944 before the Germans...
Bone does not have Schreger lines. They are some form of ivory. Most likely elephant not mammoth. Doesn't look like enough patina on them to be to...
Does bone have those criss cross lines. I never heard of Schreger lines but have since read that they are very hard to see and they are not everywhere
...exposed bases. The white and dark color pieces. It appears those cross grain Schreger lines on the exposed bases but I am no expert. What you think
Unusual, more likely French or English, I would think, rather than seller's description as Italian. Really good example of Schreger lines.
Schrodinger's lines -- they could be there and they could not be there...:D
You...or the lighter? I was hoping that would be corrected...
The lines in ivory are Schreger, not shcrodinger. ;)
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