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Title: Knife with Ivory/Bone handle? Don't know how to tell...
Post by: pantrwrstl on June 01, 2012, 09:27:24 pm

Found this knife today at a sale and picked it up, handle looks unique and I think it may be bone/ivory, maybe, but i dont really know how to tell. Half of surface seems fairly smooth, with a blue-ish, green-ish, purple-ish tint to it, almost like a mother of pearl shine to it, while the other half looks fairly rigid, almost like the grains are going a different way, so it made a weird pattern towards the one end. Anyway, here are some pictures, its hard to see the shine to the handle in them, but let me know what you think...

(http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb226/Pantrwrstl/IMAG0732.jpg)


(http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb226/Pantrwrstl/IMAG0734.jpg)
side one

(http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb226/Pantrwrstl/IMAG0733.jpg)
side 2


(http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb226/Pantrwrstl/IMAG0735.jpg)
(http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb226/Pantrwrstl/IMAG0736.jpg)
closeups

Title: Re: Knife with Ivory/Bone handle? Don't know how to tell...
Post by: mart on June 02, 2012, 09:09:06 am

Looks like mother of pearl or other shell type !!  This was used a lot for knife handles years ago !!

Title: Re: Knife with Ivory/Bone handle? Don't know how to tell...
Post by: fancypants on June 02, 2012, 10:31:00 am

I'm with mart on this one , pantrwrstl - Mother-Of-Pearl (abalone shell) !

Title: Re: Knife with Ivory/Bone handle? Don't know how to tell...
Post by: talesofthesevenseas on June 03, 2012, 12:06:35 am

Me too, it's M.O.P.! Neat knife!

Title: Re: Knife with Ivory/Bone handle? Don't know how to tell...
Post by: KC on June 04, 2012, 01:09:27 pm

MOP also!