Smith grips are these ivory
Are these ivory grips? They are supposed to be for a k frame and are heavy.
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Can't tell from your picture. Looks too white. The edges should have some barking or grain in it. Does that crack go alt the way thru and up past the screw? Did you clean it up? What is that red stuff and will it clean off? Looks like dirty plastic or bone.
Another way to tell is take a finger nail file and give it a rub under the grips. Ivory is very soft and often absorb oils.
But I am not an expert and only have one gun with a genuine elephant ivory grip.
Refer to this...
http://www.wikihow.com/Tell-Ivory-from-Bone0 -
They were for sale at a local flea market ... I think they nay be plastic after further inspection. 0 -
They are bone. Bone has pitting called "Haversian canals." Ivory and plastic doesn't. 0 -
Some modern "ivory" grips are made from ivory powder in a plastic base.
I posed this question here recently and someone said to use a hot needle in a hidden area. The items were made between 1890-1905.
I did so and got a definite plastic odor out of it.
In my case the suspect parts were either celluloid or ivory.
Moulded grips would not be perfectly flat on the inside and would show mould marks or shrinkage cavities.0
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