Tortoise Shell - Valuable?

Birdy, please come back to this thread and update us when it's sold.

 

I sure will

Although, the sale is not for another month.

 

Such a common illusion that by rewriting the present you can change the past.

It has always been a tactic of tyrants, from the Romans to the Russians, new tyrannies are more subtle but no less crushing.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2010/01/07/publisher-renames-joseph-conrad-classic-n-word-narcissus/

and not very effective on anyone old enough to remember the original state of affairs.


PS, would you mind saying which auction house it is?

 

Great news, Birdy. It's lovely and I hope it exceeds the estimate!

Could the restrictions in the U.S. on older items be because of new items being made to look old and sold as antiques?

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2010/01/07/publisher-renames-joseph-conrad-classic-n-word-narcissus/

Ahahahahaha!

 

Words fail me.

 

Well, they don't fail ME -- but I hesitate to use them as I would be considered opprobrious!

 

So we can't sell or gift pianos with ivory keys, parlor guitars with ivory inlay,and any other common item in many US homes, only bequeath to lawful beneficiaries ????

 

Hi Shiloh,
Yeeepers. Except it can be sold to a university, museum or research group. It does not say if the university, museum or research group can sell them.
There was a news report that Lark Mason (the Asian expert on AR) who has his business in NYC is moving to Texas where he would still be able to sell his antique
Chinese ivories.
greg

 

I just posted a bagpipe with ivory thread I found tonight in my Kovel's email. So rediculous.

 

And then there's this recent news article about ivory --
NC Zoo plan to destroy ivory, rhino horn postponed
By Martha Quillin
August 11, 2014

"A plan by the North Carolina Zoo to incinerate about 200 pounds of elephant ivory and rhino horn as a statement against animal poaching has been delayed while lawyers study the rules on the destruction of state property.

The zoo had planned to burn the items on Tuesday – designated as World Elephant Day 2014 – to draw attention to recent dramatic increases in the poaching of African elephants and rhinos.

The N.C. Zoological Park, just outside Asheboro, has accumulated a store of ivory and horn over the years, most of which were culled from elephants and rhinos that had died at the zoo. Some of the pieces of rhino horns are the sharp tips that had been trimmed from live animals to prevent them from goring one another (emphasis added).
. . . .

The N.C. Zoo would put the items into the incinerator it uses to cremate animal remains. If the zoo finds an educational need for ivory or rhino horn, it can use models, Jones said.

Because the items at the zoo are not sellable, they have no value, but even so are considered state property and must be disposed of according to the rules, Jones said.

Lawyers for the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources, which oversees the park, are reviewing the statutes to make sure it’s legal to burn the items."


http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/08/11/4065493/nc-zoo-plan-to-destroy-ivory-rhino.html

 

Maybe they could swap the rhino horn for a couple of pandas?

 

If an elephant breaks a tusk it will grow back.
False! Tusks are teeth and just like our teeth, if one is broken, it stays broken. But unlike our teeth, a tusk can continue growing from the root if that isn’t damaged. It’s not unusual to see an elephant with only one tusk because the other was injured to the point that it stopped growing.

The tusk is the equivalent of our incisor teeth (the tooth on either side of our two front teeth). It is made of ivory, a material soft enough to be carved, which is the root of the poaching problem.

One of the largest tusks ever found was about 10 feet long and weighed over 200 pounds. Tusks can grow up to seven inches a year.