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Any opinions on this knife handle as to the material. The silver mounts are Sheffield hallmarked for 1886 .
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Ivory
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Colin refer to the Schreger lines. But I've seen a similar dagger with an early sort of plastic which imitates this Schreger lines. Can you use the hot needle test at an unvisible place?
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Ivorine, as used on kitchenknifes, can look very much like this.
Sometimes including the lines. However, I think that ivorine would not crack like this handle Best regards, Willem |
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I don't think ivorine would crack like that, but ivory will. At least I've never seen cracks on table knives with such ivorine handles...
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I have to agree with Colin on this. These has been my observations as well.
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A cursory Google search for “cracked celluloid” seems to indicate that it is a problem, at least among fountain pen collectors. However, thinreadline is certainly correct that a hot pin should have shown a positive reaction - in the case of celluloid, that could well be in the form of bursting into flames.
All of which reinforces the difficulty of identifying ivory from a photo on a computer monitor. Sadly, my own collection has several pieces where my optimism proved to be mere wishful thinking when the item was in hand. ![]() |
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Ivory.
I have seen a lot of both, and ivory is the only material that would crack like this. |
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This is all very interesting and informative , thank you all so much .
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