Aging Ivory beads...A progress report..

[stumpstalker]

Hard to imagine that what stains your teeth and your coffee cup won't stain the little ivory bead.

The world of fine guns: if we're not cleaning, we're staining.

[Jerry VanHorn]

I posted this on the PH 20 thread ?..After the soaking in ..50-50 mix of black tea and iodine...and 100% iodine..the 3 beads came out 3 different shades. One matched my center bead well enough that it looks factory.That one screwed into the hole perfectly. The other 2 were lighter..None were really what I would call "yellowish or amber"..and I'm positive 2 were mammoth. I have one mammoth left that I will use the amber shellac on when it gets here. I suspect some ?? ivory beads ..are in fact..bone..