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Ivory candlesticks or bone ?
« on: July 08, 2012, 03:34:46 am »
Have these candlesticks made off ivory or bone . There handcut including all the seperat stones in the tower . Who has any idea ?  The are said to be France made in Dieppe in the late 19th century .
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Re: Ivory candlesticks or bone ?
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2012, 09:20:05 am »
Wow, beautiful! :o
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Re: Ivory candlesticks or bone ?
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2012, 10:49:33 am »
I know and like them to . So who knows more about them or know where to look for more information .
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Re: Ivory candlesticks or bone ?
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2012, 01:57:43 pm »
These appear to be made of bone !! I see the grain going in one direction only !!
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Re: Ivory candlesticks or bone ?
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2012, 02:20:54 pm »
I appears to have something to do with "The Ivory Towers" I think. I'm trying to figure it out.
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Re: Ivory candlesticks or bone ?
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2012, 03:19:02 pm »
Thank for the answers already but bone I have also some Indonesian items made of bone but there not the same lining inside . And in Dieppe the have been using different origins of ivory like walrus and mammoth . So could it be that ivory ? And I hope greenacres will remember what the link is whit the ivory towers .

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Re: Ivory candlesticks or bone ?
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2012, 03:38:36 pm »
It came to me. Ivory? Tower? I put 2+2 together.
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Re: Ivory candlesticks or bone ?
« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2012, 03:40:09 pm »
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Re: Ivory candlesticks or bone ?
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Re: Ivory candlesticks or bone ?
« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2012, 01:07:09 am »
Thank you and would be a possibility that the are ivory towers instead lighthouses .  There is no door in them cut out . So or a mistake or mend to be ? But there also lighthouses like these used in France and Belgium . So difficult to pinpoint them as I think .

And if the are Ivory towers there maybe good presents to the Dutch goverment  ;D
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Re: Ivory candlesticks or bone ?
« Reply #10 on: July 10, 2012, 08:58:57 am »
Ivory may refer to the color rather than what they are made of !! These I am pretty sure are bone !!
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Re: Ivory candlesticks or bone ?
« Reply #11 on: July 10, 2012, 09:21:06 am »
Is there anyway to test it to be bone or ivory ? 
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Re: Ivory candlesticks or bone ?
« Reply #12 on: July 10, 2012, 10:14:14 am »
gerspee this thread should be helpful to you.......

http://www.antique-shop.com/forums/index.php?topic=6485.0

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Re: Ivory candlesticks or bone ?
« Reply #13 on: July 10, 2012, 10:25:37 am »
I did the redhot needle test on it and there was no hole or whatever damage on the piece and I put some good pressure on it . Not even seen with a very strong loupe that i have here . But wat will bone do if heated 
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Re: Ivory candlesticks or bone ?
« Reply #14 on: July 10, 2012, 12:54:35 pm »
http://www.asianartmall.com/refivory.htm    This site will help you !! It has closeup pics of the different materials !! From the home page you can click on each to get the close shots and it explains the differences !!
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