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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 4567262, member: 55"]I have that same feeling also. Possibly if it were sliced so as to show almost none of the center, which has often been described as looking rather like oatmeal. But the normal slice for any walrus ivory is straight across, and shows a lot of that crystalline-looking center part, which as several have noted, yours does not.</p><p>Looks to me more like some other type of "fossilized" ivory, such as mastodon - which is in itself a double misnomer, as that material is neither mastodon nor truly fossilized - it is usually just very old wooly mammoth ivory.</p><p>But what do I know.....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 4567262, member: 55"]I have that same feeling also. Possibly if it were sliced so as to show almost none of the center, which has often been described as looking rather like oatmeal. But the normal slice for any walrus ivory is straight across, and shows a lot of that crystalline-looking center part, which as several have noted, yours does not. Looks to me more like some other type of "fossilized" ivory, such as mastodon - which is in itself a double misnomer, as that material is neither mastodon nor truly fossilized - it is usually just very old wooly mammoth ivory. But what do I know.....[/QUOTE]
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