Well thanks you're all too kind haha, I do enjoy it, though I do wish some items would leave my house as quickly as they seem to be entering!...
...cut, with the grain or cross grain. The pendant has been cut with the grain. The oft-mentioned Schreger lines only appear on cross cut sections.
...between the lines and the 'background'. Then there are of course Schreger lines, the famous cross hatching, but that is only seen on rounded...
I would love for the purple to be older, that would be just the icing on the cake. Definitely agreed as to the silver bracelet, it was more of a...
...of her painting on the left side. A loupe is good to catch the Schreger lines and to see the edges of the substrate. Sometimes they would pad...
He is charming, Marko. I saw these "netsuke" necklaces when I was in New York in the early 80s, so it could date from then. Many people didn't...
Maybe it is my computer but I don't see any cross hatching or schreger lines.
The presence of Schreger lines would have confirmed the material as ivory; their absence proves nothing. Do you know the 'tooth test' used as a...
...is ivory, imo. Those cracks are typical of ivory, and as 2many said, you are likely to find cross-hatched Schreger lines on the end of the handle.
I will look for schreger lines when I get home. If it is celluloid then I wonder why it is a non symmetrical shape. It looks more 'carved' than...
...If the knife handle is ivory, the best place to look for evidence of schreger lines would be on the end, which would be a cross section of a tusk.
If you mean the Schreger lines that give that engine turned look, they do not show in all sections of tusk. Is this what you mean? [ATTACH]...
Ivory, very thin “waffle”, traditional support for these! Incredible bargain for that beauty!!!
...know if they used shell then, I thought possibly ivory but I can’t see any schreger lines as the paint seems to be covering all of the surface...
They look OK to me. They are best shown on a flat cross section of the tusk, which is what we have here. [ATTACH] Compare - [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The look of Schreger lines seems off to me, too continuous, too perfectly parallel. [ATTACH]
...a few pieces of better then. I can’t find the crosshatching or schreger on these. They are approx 2” long and have no clasp. They appear to...
I dunno, those sure look like schreger lines to me...........and I think the color for ivory looks right.....to ME.....but then there are others...
...They are all various sizes and not uniform. I think I see schreger lines on the tiny off white beads The turquoise, or whatever, is so...
...make a clanking noise when dropped (by mistake), I don’t see any schreger lines yet but then almost feel like some sort of plastic. Weird!!!...
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