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Ivory Tongue Scraper 

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Ivory Tongue Scraper 

 
An unusual jointed ivory tongue scraper as seen in Benion's book on Antique Dental Instruments. You can see the craftman's "tricks of the trade where in order to prevent the ivory cracking when the strip is bent at over 90 degrees it was scored with parallel "Z" plasties.