A crack in an Ivory handle does nothing to diminish the value of a quality knife like that. All Ivory handles will crack sooner or later, so if anybody wants a perfect example, they might as well get over it now. I would have bought this knife, no questions asked.
I know absolutely ZERO about this... Having held the knife myself though, it did NOT seem like it took away from it at all. The purchaser had ZERO reservations about it either.
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