What is the reason that the mammoth tooth carving I bought has a bit of a peculiar smell?

It's true that ivory stinks when polished.

Ivory is made up of about 70 inorganic components and 30 organic components. The inorganic matter is mainly calcium hydroxyphosphate and a small amount of calcium carbonate and calcium fluoride, while the organic matter mainly includes various proteins and amino acids filled in the inorganic components.

When grinding ivory with a machine, high temperatures are generated due to friction, and under the action of temperature, the proteins contained in the ivory break down into amine derivatives and emit an unpleasant odor.

Identifying real and fake ivory can start from the following four aspects:

1. Look at the color. True ivory is ivory-white and natural, and bone products are mostly bleached, and even if the ivory is bleached, it will show a kind of oily white luster, while bone products will become dry after bleaching. Plastic products are dull, unnatural, and dull.

2. Look at the texture. True ivory has a delicate texture, fine ripples, and no bone eyes, while bone products have a coarser texture and coarse lines on them, and there are bony eyes. Plastic products tend to be texture-free.

3. Look at the weight. In terms of weight, the same size of ornaments, due to the large proportion of ivory, ivory carvings are significantly heavier than bone carvings and plastic products.

4. Look at workmanship. Most of the real ivory works are elaborate, and most of the products are round. In addition, bone products are mostly carved in oval or oblate shape due to small materials, and the surface is uneven.

Plastic products, on the other hand, often leave traces of molds.

I don't know what it smells like, but I've never touched a lot of ivory, and I've never encountered a smelly ivory.

Ivory products do not mean that the ivory is taken off to make things, there is also a process of placement, which has to wait for a period of drying, and the ivory itself has no taste, so the general ivory products will not smell.

It is normal for ivory carvings to have a peculiar smell, mammoth ivory.

After tens of thousands of years of burial, it is normal to have a little smell. Generally, the taste of soil is greater than that of ice, and the taste of blue skin is greater than that of black skin and yellow skin, and the normal taste of playing will gradually fade. Regarding the peculiar smell, when I bought it, the shopkeeper of the Zhenzang Shengyun Mammoth explained it to me, and you can ask the shopkeeper for details.

Mammoth ivory carving? I've been pitted

It can be placed for a period of time, of course, in this process, it is necessary to pay attention to the selection of the storage environment, the temperature and humidity should be appropriate, and the sunlight should not be direct sunlight, etc., so as to avoid the mammoth ivory is easy to crack and embrittle, which will affect the overall beauty and value. You can regularly add some oil to mammoth ivory, such as baby oil, to increase the oiliness of mammoth ivory and make its odor slowly lighten.

Mammoth ivory was extinct more than 10,000 years ago, most of them are concentrated under the permafrost of Siberia, Russia (a bit like silt), after tens of thousands of years of burial, it is not surprising that some of the smell in the silt penetrates into the mammoth ivory, after excavation and mining, even if it is made into a mammoth ivory carving product, you can still smell its unique smell.

And this has become one of the small ways to identify the authenticity of mammoth tusks.

1.Look at the texture. Mammoth tooth pattern is unique, the vertical line of mammoth tooth is less than 90 degrees, and more than 90 degrees is fake, tooth pattern.

The closer you get to the center of the tooth, the less noticeable it is. And this texture is very different from what is imitated with plastic.

2.Look at the feel. Mammoth teeth have been buried in frozen soil for tens of thousands of years, and the skin will be a little rough, and there will still be a little unevenness after polishing. And.

Mammoth teeth are denser than bone products, plastics, and resins, so they will be heavier.

3.If it is made of resin or plastic, it must have a burning smell when burned with fire, which is easy to identify, but this method is usually inconvenient to use.

Now there are a lot of fakes in ivory carving, to distinguish or learn more related knowledge, I know a treasured mammoth shopkeeper, in this line of work for a long time, experience is still rich, if you are not sure, you can find this shopkeeper to help see.

Leave it on for a while to allow the flavour to dissipate naturally, or apply baby oil.

With long-term play, the smell of mammoth ivory will become less and less tempered over time. Of course, in this process, we should pay attention to the choice of storage environment, the temperature and humidity should be appropriate, and the sun can not be directly exposed, etc., so as to avoid mammoth ivory is easy to crack and embrittle, which affects the overall beauty and value.

If you don't play for a long time, to keep the mammoth tooth products sealed, you can wrap them in plastic wrap and put them in a windless place, or you can put a glass of water next to them to avoid the air being too dry. You can also regularly add some oil to mammoth ivory, such as baby oil, to increase the oiliness of mammoth ivory, which can make its odor slowly fade.