Scale Question - Bone or Ivory?

[Gamma]

I'm not interested from a value standpoint - I'm just wondering for my own knowledge.
A friend looked at this - he says Ivory. The razor was sold as having bone scales though.
I just don't know how to tell the difference.

 

[Mike H]

Looks like ivory to me. I know ebay prohibits the sale of ivory, so sellers will list it as bone.

 

[Nova316]

Looks like Ivory to me, bone is porous so you can usually see black holes not nice lines. Plus its quite thin

 

[dakotaev]

I vote for ivory as well.

 

[Doc226]

Scales look like ivory, not usual to use washers with ivory though.

 

[superbleu]

Ivory.

 

[BakerAndBadger]

Cheap plastic, I can see the moulding line from here.
please send to me for recycling - Belgium is the world capital for this type of plastic recycling, you may see it on sale as a polar fleece once redone.

looks great whatever material it is!

 

[Gamma]

Thanks everyone - I was on the fence about this, but general consensus seems to be that it's at least 'probably' some kind of Ivory.
I got this on the BST a couple weeks ago - steel is very very good, takes a killer edge. Seems to be a rebranded Solingen from a retailer in Spain.
I'm going to be passing it along via the BST, and this wasn't about hype or trying to inflate the value or whatever - it'll go for what I paid for it. I just would like to know more about how to identify Ivory. Those lines say Ivory to me, but I don't know if that's a surefire method of knowing. The washers on the pins - I've seen Ivory scales, or at least scales advertised as Ivory, with washers before. Who knows - maybe it was rescaled a long time ago.. nothing else really suggests that though.

 

[Bayamontate]

It looks like Ivory, what is the wedge made out of? That may answer some questions.

 

[Obiwan]

Looks like ivory to me as well. Nice, congrats.

 

[Gamma]

The wedge is black - not sure what it's made of.

 

[honed]

Ivory, definitely not bone.
Slight possibility that it is a very well made celluloid look-alike, the washers suggest celluloid, however, from the grains & yellowed shade & thinness I say by 98% certainty "ivory"

 

[Gamma]

Thanks honed, they're definitely natural - not manmade.
Razor is on its way back to the original owner now...

 

[paco664]

looks like cheap chinese immitation plastic....


better send me that for disposal before someone gets poisoned or something....

 

[Kentos]

Try tapping it on your teeth. You can tell if its plastic.

 

[mainaman]

Definitely looks Ivory

 

[paco664]

Definitely looks Ivory

shhhhh.... pay no attention to this man....

it is plastic... send it to me for confirmation and destruction...

 

[professorchaos]

Ivory.

 

[noahpictures]

It's coming back home.

 

[bloodyface]

Break it - if it was ivory you would sence a bad taste in your mouth, if its plastic you wont feel a thing...