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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 422139, member: 2844"]Absolutely. And from the angle of the Schreger line intersections, you can see it is elephant ivory, so a problem if you want to sell it.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this case the black spots are flecks of dirt. They are not spots with lines, the way canals for blood vessels appear in bone.</p><p>These spots of dirt appear especially on ivory that isn't highly polished. The slightly rougher surface is susceptible to dirt, which has accumulated even more on the base and around the hole of the dowel, where the glue is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 422139, member: 2844"]Absolutely. And from the angle of the Schreger line intersections, you can see it is elephant ivory, so a problem if you want to sell it. In this case the black spots are flecks of dirt. They are not spots with lines, the way canals for blood vessels appear in bone. These spots of dirt appear especially on ivory that isn't highly polished. The slightly rougher surface is susceptible to dirt, which has accumulated even more on the base and around the hole of the dowel, where the glue is.[/QUOTE]
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