What is this? Elephant tusk?!

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  1. aimeefromNZ

    aimeefromNZ New Member

    Any ideas on how old this could be??
     

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  2. antidiem

    antidiem Well-Known Member

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  3. judy

    judy Well-Known Member

    Hi Aimee!

    Welcome to Antiquers............:cat:
     
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  4. judy

    judy Well-Known Member

    If you click on the spot, the picture will come up!
     
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  5. Houseful

    Houseful Well-Known Member

    Need to see the base please. I think I can see some resin blobs but need more pics to be sure.
     
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  6. kyratango

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

    Yep, I see really many resin blobs in the flowers! Vote resin without seeing the base, happily no elephant was harmed in the making!;)
     
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  7. aimeefromNZ

    aimeefromNZ New Member

    Wow so its a mould made from resin and then carved?? Or sculpted using resinous? Cool! It does have heaps of tiny spherical shapes. Did make me wonder how it would have been carved so perfectly. Its very bone looking, but to tap on, it does feel plastic like
     
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  8. aaroncab

    aaroncab in veritate victoria

    Cast in a mold, the original that the mold was formed from would have been carved at some point, but not this piece.
     
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  9. Houseful

    Houseful Well-Known Member

    Original was likely carved from wood or ivory. Cast in resin from a silicone mould made using the original carving. The blobs and often pinholes appear and they are a giveaway for resin.
     
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  10. aimeefromNZ

    aimeefromNZ New Member

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    wiscbirddog Well-Known Member

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  12. David Kiehl

    David Kiehl Well-Known Member

    Ivory/teeth and should have schreger lines and ivory fluoresces under UV light. Experts can actually tell you which animal the ivory is from by the way it fluoresces.
    I am leaning to a man made material based on the bubbles.
     
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  13. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    yup, that's molded resin..
     
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