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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 494230, member: 2844&quot;]The &#039;cute big head&#039; style of the necklace is very recent.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mammoth ivory is ok in many countries, although there is concern about the &#039;harvesting&#039; of ancient mammoth tusks. I don&#039;t know the details, just that more and more tusks surface from Siberian ice as a result of global warming.</p><p>And you have to be really sure it is mammoth ivory and not elephant.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i0.wp.com/cdn.makezine.com/uploads/2012/03/elephant-vs-mammoth-schreger-lines.jpg?resize=580%2C232" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Cross sections of elephant (left) and mammoth tusks (right) with outer Schreger lines marked, showing characteristic angle difference.</p><p><a href="https://makezine.com/2012/03/29/how-to-tell-mammoth-ivory-from-elephant-ivory/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://makezine.com/2012/03/29/how-to-tell-mammoth-ivory-from-elephant-ivory/" rel="nofollow">https://makezine.com/2012/03/29/how-to-tell-mammoth-ivory-from-elephant-ivory/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This is the problem when people don&#039;t know or check the Schreger line difference:</p><p><a href="https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/wildlife-woolly-mammoth-ivory-trade-legal-china-african-elephant-poaching/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/wildlife-woolly-mammoth-ivory-trade-legal-china-african-elephant-poaching/" rel="nofollow">https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/wildlife-woolly-mammoth-ivory-trade-legal-china-african-elephant-poaching/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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