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Old 22nd April 2006, 02:27 AM   #43
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Originally Posted by Ian
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Lovely color to the ivory -- rich golden, with a slight reddish hue. Could this be dugong ivory? There is an example in Cato that he calls dugong, and some time ago we had a discussion about dugong ivory on the old forum.

Ian.
Ian, here's another one.
I had mine polished, but didn't change a thing.
I thought ivory as it gets older they turn to light golden/yellow, like the aged pool cue balls, this ones are just dark orange. Tea stained?
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