Ease That Tooth Ache. Show Off Some Ivory

Danke42 said:
That might be changing but the issue is with poachers re-branding elephant ivory as mammoth. It takes a destructive DNA test of the item to know what it is.

So once again the problem is humans.

Only one I got.

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Horsewright said:
Thanks for the kind words guys!

Yep it really was about smuggling ivory and being able to prove that one was elephant ivory and not mammoth. But it was sold as saving elephants from being poached. I ended up talking with the guy in charge of enforcing this law. Met him at a show where we had our booth set up. Interestingly he was already a customer, he had a couple of my knives. Not only were the DNA tests destructive but they were prohibitively expensive. If they had a smuggler with say 100 lil statues they'd have to test each one. Now they don't have to prove its elephant ivory.
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Yeah, I suppose I can see the logic in their approach. Just has an absurd result.
 
Wart Hog fits here great! The Fairbairn Sykes handle is one I have never seen before. This knife is a 3 panel Tom Beasley Fairbairn Sykes. The handle is not ivory and most have turned orange over time. I think it would look great with a handle like Steven65's FS.
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OPSEC-C-C said:
Wart Hog fits here great! The Fairbairn Sykes handle is one I have never seen before. This knife is a 3 panel Tom Beasley Fairbairn Sykes. The handle is not ivory and most have turned orange over time. I think it would look great with a handle like Steven65's FS.
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Sir that is a good looking piece but I very much doubt it is warthog. That may be Elephant or whale but almost certainly not warthog.
 
Wishfulthinker580 said:
Warthog doesn’t yellow correct?
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Well not that I have seen but I suppose under the right conditions it may. The thing that makes me doubt this is Warthog is that you will absolutely struggle to ever find a tusk that could be used for a FS handle.

Warthog tusks are heavily curved and oddly shaped in their cross section. To find a tusk you could turn to make a FS handle would be next to impossible.

It is possible that this could also be Hippo, but I suspect that this is Elephant.
 
"Beach-Found" Walrus? I have seen YouTube videos where folks are beachcombing in Alaska for washed up Walrus tusks after a storm. It is said that Walrus tusks may be legally owned if found on the beach . . .but not sold.

What's up with that?
 
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For as nice as the Ivory is, the engraving and inlay are impressive.


I will rephrase my question:

Under what circumstances may a private citizen legally own a piece of Walrus tusk ivory?
 
VorpelSword said:
I will rephrase my question:

Under what circumstances may a private citizen legally own a piece of Walrus tusk ivory?
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If you don't live in one of the handful of states (5 I think?) that ivory isn't banned and it isn't white with no other colors, you can possess, own or sell walrus ivory.
 
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