Stand: 27.05.06

Tagua nuts

Cattle bones

Mammoth ivory

Cattle horn plates

Buffalo horn plates

 

Cattle bones

Cattle bones are long bones. Mostly the bones of Argentine cattles are used, because of the thicker wall. The colour of cattle bones is yellowish to white. They are well to be worked on. Cattle bones and mammoth ivory serve since the ivory trade embargo of 1975 as ivory substitutes.

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