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<p>[QUOTE="Aquitaine, post: 3340571, member: 602"]My gut feeling is it's real....looks like someone varnished it as well....but last couple of images in particular look to have some visible Schreger lines showing......so many can be so faint as well.....wait for others, as I know you will......</p><p>Here's a decent link with a ton of examples of different lines though!!!</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=whalebone+and+schreger+lines&fr=yhs-trp-001&hspart=trp&hsimp=yhs-001&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcuratorialtrainee.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F02%2Fivory.jpg#id=4&iurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcuratorialtrainee.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F02%2Fivory.jpg&action=click" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=whalebone+and+schreger+lines&fr=yhs-trp-001&hspart=trp&hsimp=yhs-001&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcuratorialtrainee.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F02%2Fivory.jpg#id=4&iurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcuratorialtrainee.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F02%2Fivory.jpg&action=click" rel="nofollow">https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=whalebone+and+schreger+lines&fr=yhs-trp-001&hspart=trp&hsimp=yhs-001&imgurl=https://curatorialtrainee.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/ivory.jpg#id=4&iurl=https://curatorialtrainee.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/ivory.jpg&action=click</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Aquitaine, post: 3340571, member: 602"]My gut feeling is it's real....looks like someone varnished it as well....but last couple of images in particular look to have some visible Schreger lines showing......so many can be so faint as well.....wait for others, as I know you will...... Here's a decent link with a ton of examples of different lines though!!! [URL='https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=whalebone+and+schreger+lines&fr=yhs-trp-001&hspart=trp&hsimp=yhs-001&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcuratorialtrainee.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F02%2Fivory.jpg#id=4&iurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcuratorialtrainee.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F02%2Fivory.jpg&action=click']https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=whalebone+and+schreger+lines&fr=yhs-trp-001&hspart=trp&hsimp=yhs-001&imgurl=https://curatorialtrainee.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/ivory.jpg#id=4&iurl=https://curatorialtrainee.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/ivory.jpg&action=click[/URL][/QUOTE]
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