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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 222495, member: 2844"]<b>People, stay away from the hot needle.</b> <b>This is an order<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I posted this before in another thread:</p><p>You can recognise elephant ivory by even-sized lines of more and less yellow/whitish tones, and cross-hatching of these lines in parts:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mahjongtreasures.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F01%2FIMG_3601-1024x291.jpg&sp=04468dce4493189ae1f2a33a03f54844" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So you test by using your eyes.</p><p>Of course ivorine often has those lines as well, but only to <u>show</u> the lines, not to cover them up with a lovely painted miniature. And to my knowledge it doesn't have the cross-hatching.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 222495, member: 2844"][B]People, stay away from the hot needle.[/B] [B]This is an order;).[/B] I posted this before in another thread: You can recognise elephant ivory by even-sized lines of more and less yellow/whitish tones, and cross-hatching of these lines in parts: [IMG]https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mahjongtreasures.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F01%2FIMG_3601-1024x291.jpg&sp=04468dce4493189ae1f2a33a03f54844[/IMG] So you test by using your eyes. Of course ivorine often has those lines as well, but only to [U]show[/U] the lines, not to cover them up with a lovely painted miniature. And to my knowledge it doesn't have the cross-hatching.[/QUOTE]
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