Message #10557

[Wattana]

On my bottle, being it a cross section, this can perfectly be seen. All around the circumference the lozenges are wider than taller. It is hard to say how your chess pieces has been carved out from the tusk. If they are not cross section, then the lines should be seen from the same point of view of the images provided in that site.

Hi Giovanni and James,

Firstly, thank you James for the Schreger test. I did not know how to tell the difference before seeing your links. But I agree with Giovanni that his bottle is indisputably a cross section of the tusk, so on that basis it is easy to read the Schreger lines correctly. With the chess pieces, it is not so easy, as they could be carved from tangental cuts of the tusk rather than cross cuts.

Tom