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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 671655, member: 5833&quot;]Seller&#039;s description of Josephine:&nbsp; You can feel texture in the surface.</p><p><br /></p><p>They&#039;re too large for bone, so I find it interesting that the texture caught attention in both cases.&nbsp; Ivory that has been worked doesn&#039;t have a texture perceptible to the fingertips.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Unless it&#039;s the same one.</p><p><br /></p><p>They&#039;re incredibly carefully done for reproductions, even down to Josephine being more yellow than Napoleon.&nbsp; (ivory yellows more or less over time, depending on the conditions it has been exposed to.)&nbsp; I can&#039;t think when there would have been enough demand for these, in an era when there are the materials &amp; techniques to make them, to make it worthwhile.&nbsp; And, in the case of Josephine, to have added writing directly on the back of the plaque, when it was going to be covered over with paper?&nbsp; Seems they were meant to be a set.&nbsp; Why make Josephine look like she has spent her time not with Napoleon (the different color)?&nbsp; Wouldn&#039;t it be odd for a modern faker not to make the surface smooth?&nbsp; This is the detail that argues against elephant or walrus ivory, the only kind I have direct experience of.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s really too bad there are no photos of the backs for the other two.&nbsp; I&#039;m getting more indications of genuine than for fake.&nbsp; The texture issue confuses me &amp; would never make a definitive pronouncement without better info.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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