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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.