...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!!!...
...to be ivory, but it's awfully big for a piece of tusk and no schreger lines to be seen. I've seen lots of similar items (minus the visible...
The anonymous woman I have that is similar to your Isabella came apart today so I could weigh it in my hand without the mount and see the back &...
Yo, that's what I was thinking! I thought maybe I was just seeing things.
plastic schreger lines ?
...and not all at the same time. I don’t see mold marks but not schreger or anything else like that. It’s also curved slightly Please help and...
I think we haven't seen the right angle to see Schreger lines, but the other lines are there. I hope I'm wrong though, and it isn't ivory. The...
...it in hand, there can be no doubt. Ivory looks like ivory, has Schreger lines; marble looks like marble, has characteristic veining. None of...
...While Schreger lines only appear on tusk cross sections, if the section of material used is from the interior, not the outer perimeter, you...
...of details and the upper area cracks are indication of ivory! Schreger lines aren’t always present on a piece, depending in which orientation...
...thin. It is more yellow/cream than my pictures show. I don't see Schreger lines, so I question whether it is ivory. Velvet is glued to the back...
Yes, in that case it is bone. Phew. My guess is W Africa or DR Congo, but 2manybooks will probably have to correct me.
I don't see any Schreger lines so I'm assuming that it is carved from bone rather than ivory.
Close-ups would help. Clear ones. Schreger lines mean ivory. Blood channels mean bone. If Any suspects bone I"d go with that.
Here are some photographs showing what Schreger lines can look like - sometimes as cross-hatching, sometimes as a sort of watered effect depending...
...it’s very difficult to find any surface large enough to see any schreger marks , I have found an area with some kind of lines though ( at the...
...and in the right orientation, to see the uniquely diagnostic "Schreger" lines. (Schreger lines are subtle, spiraling and intersecting lines,...
Schreger lines only appear in ivory that is cut in cross section from the outer layers of the tusk. If the piece has been cut lengthwise, you...
I think you are referring to Schreger lines. Mammoth ivory on the LEFT, elephant ivory on the RIGHT: [IMG]
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