Please recommend a method for cleaning elk ivories.
Info on the web is unreliable and too varied.

Pretty slick stealth gloat............... What our son and i have always done, is scrape them with a pocket knife. It is something i always liked to do when watching TV, or some such. I imagine there is some kinda scientific way to go about it, but we never looked for a better way. We just work on them every now and again, until they are mostly clean. If you don't mind, could you take a photo of them? Some ivories are so very pretty.

After you clean off the gunk. Carry them in your pocket with change. It will polish them.

Or throw them in the tumbler with your next batch of brass.

I've always boiled them to loosen up the meat/gristle that is stuck on them. Then scrape them with a knife and/or your thumbnail.

BE CAREFUL NOT TO BOIL THEM TOO MUCH OR LET AL OF THE WATER BOIL AWAY. It will ruin them -- voice of experience.

An old Montana cowboy that I used to work with told me that if I wanted to bring out the color in a good set of bull ivories, would be to carry them in my pocket in a bag of chewing tobacco. It works! -- again, voice of experience.

I'm boiling the antlers in borax, I'm putting the teeth in for awhile also.