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Hi all, here is another of my "end of the year" piece
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Looks like deer antler thats been ground,sanded or otherwise worked down to lose most of its pattern.
So technicaly thats Bone. Nice dha though! Spiral |
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I have trouble myself telling bone from Ivory in a picture but the above makes sense with the brown incursion into the handle. I also agree is is a nice solid looking dha
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Hi Spiral and Michael, yes could be, but i had never thought that a deer antler could be of this color!! Thank you
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I agree, it is deer antler.
So tecnically it isn't bone but HORN ![]() Flavio I'll explain it to you in your language: e corno di cervo quasi sicuramente. Se levigato per bene perde il tipico colore marrone e le sporgenze. |
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Thanks, but was already quite clear |
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http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.ed...d_antlers.html |
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Thank you Andrew and Ariel
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One way to tell ivory from bone and antler is to shine an ultra-violet light on it. Ivory will glow a very bright quite, while anter and bone will only a weak fluorescense (plastice none at all, BTW). It is harder to distiguish under a dark patination, though, and such things as "bright" and "weak" are relative terms that are hard to quantify with known reference standards.
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Horn is a keratin structure that grows over bone. Spiral |
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