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Vegetable ivory has been used as adornment for hundreds of years. Most popular during the 1880’s, this material was used to produce buttons. The ability to dye the material to match and complement the colour of fabrics made vegetable ivory very practical. The enterprise that exported 40,000 tons of vegetable ivory during its peak was eradicated with the later invention of plastic.

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