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How can you authenticate ivory?

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One way is with a hot pin, this will tell you if it is plastic. A pin hot enough to burn pushed on a discrete place of an item in question when applied will soon tell you if it's plastic from the smell of the smoke.
This will not differentiate it from bone. This can be done as ivory has a distinct very fine grain (as with woods). Bone however does not and often has small holes left where blood vessels were, whereas ivory has no blood vessels through it. It can still be difficult where niether of these distinctions are apparent and is difficult to demonstrate without pictorial examples to show.

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Relevant answers:

Is there ivory on Ivory Coast?
Yes. The Ivory Coast of Africa was once the center of the ivory trade for Europeans, who slaughtered elephants to obtain their valuable ivory tusks.
What is ivory?
Ivory is an elephant tusk that is made into slates for carving.
Where can you get ivory?
From the elephant. Ivory means a elephant tusks in the other word, but if you want to get it you need to kill the elephant and cut the ivory off ( which is what NOT I reccomend ).
What can you do with ivory?
nothing, Ivory is banned in all civilized countries.
Which is correct in ivory coast or in the ivory coast?
Neither. The correct term is Cote d'Ivoire (which is just Ivory Coast in French) but the country has refused to have their name translated into any other language than their used language, French.