View Single Post
Old 8th December 2019, 04:20 PM   #17
GIO
Member
 
GIO's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 310
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul B.
The brown deteriorated colour is a good age sign or is the conclusion to easy as a wrangka could also be made of an old piece of ivory but recently carved ?
I think that the brown stripe has nothing to do with age. It was certainly already present in the exterior layer of ivory when the poor elephant was still alive.
GIO is offline   Reply With Quote