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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 301360, member: 2844&quot;]Agree with davey, these are bone. And you&#039;re right Ratsy, no bakelite.</p><p>The pitting is typical of bone, that is where the tiny blood vessels used to be.</p><p>Teeth have no blood supply, so ivory has no dark pitting. Ivory has Schreger lines, fairly even lines of a lighter and darker colour, and where it is rounded, the lines intersect, that is Schreger cross-hatching:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]98525[/ATTACH]</p><p>Side view of a Japanese manju netsuke.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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