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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Miscstuff, post: 253685, member: 1331&quot;]I&#039;m always tempted to think negatively about antique bone inlaid items and assume that they were always ivory because it was somehow magically as cheap as chips and could be used in an average quality desk set like mine but I&#039;m not convinced. I&#039;ve got well over one hundred inlaid samples that have no signs of Schreger lines and even though that&#039;s not a guarantee of bone, statistically it is significant. I think you are right about location and date but you seem to be saying that absolutely everything like this was ivory. That seems to be remarkably definitive and absolute and suggests the local manufacturers didn&#039;t ever use bone on the cheaper units. Personally if I were them I wouldn&#039;t have hesitated to flog of bone as ivory to the &quot;stupid English&quot;. Tried to find these &quot;number of these on eBay&quot; you mentioned and managed to find one with one inkwell and a single elephant that looked similar and a quill holder with the same style. There were also modern inlaid elephant bookends and lots of elephants crossing a bridge but they all looked modern. Tried every eBay search trick I could think of but couldn&#039;t find many more. Anyway - for the moment I&#039;m still convinced that &quot;Any Jewelry&quot; hit the nail on the head.</p><p>Cheers</p><p>Stephen[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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