Tortoiseshell green turtle

The scutes on the carapace of the loggerhead are not nearly as pretty as those of the other turtles, and are as thin and fragile as those of the green turtle. Nonetheless the material has been used as tortoiseshell, thou mainly as veneer. The shells are also sold whole. 

Tortoiseshell is the name given to the mottled, golden or reddish and brown, translucent, homy plates or scutes covering the shells of certain species of marine turtle. The best known and by far the finest tortoiseshell comes from the hawksbill turtle, but the scutes of the green and the loggerhead turtles have also been put to some decorative uses. 

The following applies mostly to tortoiseshell om the hawksbill turtle, as that from the green and loggerhead is thin and more britde, and takes less easily to the various treatments. 

Beii thin, the tortoiseshell horn green and loggeriiead turtles is suitable for use as veneer. However, they ore less easy than hawks-bill tortoiseshell to weld together to make larger pieces. 

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