How to Distinguish Authentic Whale Tooth Scrimshaw from Resin "Fakeshaw" (Part 1 of 3) The 1970s saw the implementation of the U.S. Federal Marine Mammals Protection Act of 1972 (MMPA ), and the U.S. Federal...
Many dealers do not know the difference between ivory and bone and therefore mistakenly list bone or resin items as "ivory". Bone has dots and dashes instead of the cross-hatching or wood-like grains of...
Distinguishing Authentic Antique Scrimshaw from Fraudulent Ivory (Part 3 of 3) Another type of fraudulent antique scrimshaw is actually a form of forgery. The 1975 Convention on International Trade in...