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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 3341589, member: 5833"]It would not be odd for such a piece to have the bail screwed directly into the material.</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like a fragment of elephant ivory to me, but I do not know how the grain in a similar shard of walrus tusk would look. Your main question was real or fake. I'm very much on the side of real, just not sure what the material is. Maybe [USER=301]@komokwa[/USER] has some thoughts on it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 3341589, member: 5833"]It would not be odd for such a piece to have the bail screwed directly into the material. It looks like a fragment of elephant ivory to me, but I do not know how the grain in a similar shard of walrus tusk would look. Your main question was real or fake. I'm very much on the side of real, just not sure what the material is. Maybe [USER=301]@komokwa[/USER] has some thoughts on it.[/QUOTE]
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