All great civilizations, based on hierarchical relationships, the prevalence of groups or classes, then well sull'ostenzione of power, wealth, prestige, luxury goods have left us, signs of how to live and enjoy life classes higher. Great importance was attributed to the rarity and appearance of materials, possession of valuables, in rare stones is vital for the identification of the social status of the individual. Among the more expensive materials, there is the turtle, used since antiquity artifacts: the Romans, but also Japanese and Chinese used it for veneering furniture, was found at Pompeii flabellum with a turtle neck now on display in the Museum Archaeology in Naples. The turtle belongs to the family of reptiles of this are two species: the terrestrial and aquatic river or sea. Those rivers have thin scales suitable for cover while moving sea have more double scales, necessary for the creation of objects. Turtles "Caretas Caretas" are divided into two similar families: those of the Caribbean Sea and those of Africa (Madagascar), both covered with scaly armor as interlocking tiles, and being spotted at the top while the belly and belly is yellow. The handicraft processing dellla turtle spread in Europe since 1600 but the second half of the 700 that Naples and Paris were known for the originality and exquisite objects prodotti.Spesso these objects were embellished with mother of pearl gold and silver, creating so close cooperation with the world gold. From 700 to 900 of the first products were a variety of objects is to use such as combs, cosmetic bag, umbrella handles, glasses, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, brooches, services, toiletries, cigarette, portatabacco, portacipriacerniere for bags, carnet dance etc, that as ornamental frames, trays. Watches, boxes, mirrors and ornaments depicting raised mostly animals. Besides the quality of manufacturing an object of tortoise is very important because the color ranging from black cherry to the more common (serise) of a bright red to mottled (Jaspeè) with dark spots on a yellow background and dirtregolari until rare demiblonde totally yellow or blonde. The creation of handmade turtle ended up in Naples in the 30's when political issues did not allow trade with Britain that held the raw material market (the turtle scales) for a time went with plastics already on the market several years as Bacalar, cellulose acetate and natural rodoide that had nothing. Trade resumed after the war to the craft disappeared as the turtle was declared a protected species as it is today so it was impossible to get the raw material to work with. Nowadays it is still certainly the charm of the tortoise, the proof is the myriad of objects sometimes signed big-name fashion that refer to the phrase "hardened" and thus offer plasic materials to imitate the original.