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100% Genuine Mammoth ivory handcrafted netsuke, size:  1-11/16" x 1-5/16" x 1-1/8" (43mm x 33mm x 29mm). This netsuke is carved by our artisan. The  carving is very detail and wonderful workmanship.

Mammoth Ivory Bark Fish Hook Carving Pendant (P0150-009)

100% Genuine Mammoth Ivory handcrafted Fish Hook pendant, size: 1-9/16" x 11/16" x 3/16" (40mm x 18mm x 5mm). This pendant is carved from a material having beautiful bark, for details please refer to our photo. Our designer used this special feature of the material making this special cross pendant. This pendant is One-Of-A-Kind because of the special mammoth Ivory bark surface.

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Special Characteristic of Mammoth Ivory Tusk – Nice Fossil Bark

Special Characteristic of Mammoth Ivory Tusk – Nice Fossil Bark

 

One of the easiest ways to distinguish mammoth ivory tusk from elephant tusk is by the color of the tusk surface.

 

Mammoth Ivory is the ivory tusks of the Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus Primigenus also known as the Mastodon) which has been extinct for more than 10,000 years. Mammoth Ivory has been found in Europe, North America and Asia since the end of the last ice age. The Woolly Mammoth roamed across the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska during the ice age when parts of Alaska and the Yukon in Canada were free of ice.

 

Mammoth ivory were buried under the ice for over 10,000 years. It has taken on its beautiful patterns and colors by absorbing minerals from the artic soil. The colors seen include tan, light brown, orange, golden brown, and chocolate brown to even black; occasionally a blue or green color is also seen. The outside bark is sometimes very colorful as it was in direct contact with minerals in the soil and the elements. For the appearance of mammoth ivory tusk, please refer to the links below:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBegDl3BpaM

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcr-0ED7ZmI

For modern elephant ivory, they are only in ivory color because they are freshly cut from elephant without any buried. It will not have brownish, blue-green or grey colors. Please find the attached picture for the image of elephant ivory.

 

 

To be a wise consumer, please check and make sure you are buying real mammoth ivory products by checking the color of the tusk surface. In the following paragraphs, I will show you the mammoth ivory products with observable fossil mammoth bark.

 

 

 

Mammoth tusk carving and sculpture via elephant tusk carving and sculpture

 

You are see from the pictures below, the color of the whole elephant tusk carving is in ivory color without any other color.

 

While from the picture of mammoth ivory tusk carving, you can see there are brown fossil bark at the surface of the tusk. In the middle of the tusk, it is also in natural ivory color because only the surface of the mammoth tusk were fossilized by absorbing the mineral from surrounding soil during 10,000 years of burial.

  

Mammoth ivory tusk carving:

 

 

Mammoth ivory sculptures:

 

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Elephant ivory carvings:

 

 

 

Because of the special natural bark color of mammoth ivory, many people would like to use it to make the knife handles. It is impossible for elephant ivory to make such colorful and beatiful knife scales.

 

For details, please find the link below:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vunPVbXeoZk

 

For jewelry and beads, besides ivory color, mammoth ivory can make brown, blue, green , and beige color beads which provide more selection and ideas for designers. 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87PyoPVK6Vs

 

 

As the bark color and also the degree of fossilization of each mammoth tusks are different because they are naturally formed by the environment which they were burial. This feature makes the products looks unique and special by the colors and pattern of the cracks. You can see this from the few samples of mammoth ivory bark pendants.

 

 

Mammoth ivory bark pendants:

 

 

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Elephant ivory jewelry:

For elephant jewelry and bead, you can see there is only one color – Ivory.

 

 

Based on the above information, I believe you can be a professional in distinguishing mammoth ivory between elephant ivory.