Ivory

Ivory characterizes a solid, pallid and opaque exterior that is made from the mass of the teeth and tusks of animals that includes fundamentally mammals such as the elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, mammoth and narwhal.

Ivory is one of the most eminent resources that is used to adorn the high quality precious jewelry. Ivory is an organic mineral that is found in certain mammals and possesses some unambiguous sort of characteristics.

Ivory is seen in two colors, white and whitish yellow. The Ivory that has a white color is expensive and the yellow color is seen in an older piece but both are equally delicate and attractive.

The quality of Ivory is very malleable in contrast to gemstones that are usually rigid surfaced. The size of Ivory depends upon the size of the animal. The largest sample of Ivory is seen in bull elephants.

Ivory is the material found in the tusks or tooth of mammals. The tusks or tooth obtained from any mammal has the identical structure of pulp cavity, dentine, enamel and cementum.

Ivory serves numerous decorative and realistic uses. Ivory has an early history of being used for billiard balls, piano keys, bagpipes, buttons and an extensive variety of decorative items.

Ivory has been banned since 1989 to save the mammals that were literally killed to obtain their beautiful tusks. Factual information is there that in 40 years, 97% of the 300,000 elephants found in certain African countries were butchered to obtain the Ivory, and this practice would make the species extinct. After the ban, Ivory has become rare as now only after the natural death of the animal, ivory can be obtained, so today there are plastic substitutes of Ivory available in the market that look equally exquisite and beautiful like the original material.