~~~ kind of reminds me of some "fakes" that are ivory that depicted famous places/names and cataloged as "commemoratives" that fetched well over $1000 in the past.

I remember one "Texas Belle" ivory I had; a chip of no such boat.. that was very popular with ivory collectors.

I don't know what this bone octagon chips looks like or feels like in person, but it seems that the grapics are neither "stamped or engraved" on to the surface, but rather a process that was done on glass back then; kind of an "etch" of sorts... just going by looks in both scans.

I'd like to find the 2005 magazine article, though.