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Ivory Identification Guide: The Ivories

This is a web version of the Identification Guide for Ivory and Ivory Substitutes by Edgard O. Espinoza and Mary-Jacque Mann, published in cooperation with the CITES Secretariat, and was developed to give information about a nondestructive and visual means of tentatively distinguishing clearly legal ivory from suspected illegal ivory at ports of entry.

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Ivory Identification by Bob Weisblut: 

This is a supplemental guide to Identification Guide for Ivory and Ivory Substitutes by Edgard O. Espinoza and Mary-Jacque Mann above.

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Central Michigan University's College of Science and Technology Ivory Identification

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Estimating the Age of Whale Teeth from Natural Dry-Out Cracks

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How to Discern Authentic Whale Tooth Scrimshaw from Resin "Fakeshaw"

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Discerning Authentic Scrimshawed Whale Teeth From Re-Shaped Bone & Hippo Teeth

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Distinguishing Authentic Antique Scrimshaw from Fraudulent Ivory

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