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<p>[QUOTE="Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 10202199, member: 23"]No Schreger lines and no pinprick spots that would indicate bone. I'm 75 and seen a lot of real ivory in my days as an antique store owner and I see resin. Online photos are not the way to get an ID. You need to take it to a museum. If it is ivory, I'm not sure what you need carbon dating for. All carbon dating does is tell you how old the object is. I'm aware that there are artisans in other countries using mammoth ivory to make artifacts. Carbon dating would make it thousands of years old, but the object might have been carved yesterday. What you want is an expert on this type of object telling you the value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 10202199, member: 23"]No Schreger lines and no pinprick spots that would indicate bone. I'm 75 and seen a lot of real ivory in my days as an antique store owner and I see resin. Online photos are not the way to get an ID. You need to take it to a museum. If it is ivory, I'm not sure what you need carbon dating for. All carbon dating does is tell you how old the object is. I'm aware that there are artisans in other countries using mammoth ivory to make artifacts. Carbon dating would make it thousands of years old, but the object might have been carved yesterday. What you want is an expert on this type of object telling you the value.[/QUOTE]
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