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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 268969, member: 55&quot;]And sometimes the fakers are amazingly devious.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve got a link somewhere about a US Fish and Wildlife prosecution in 2004; a criminal ring obtained marine ivory illegally in Alaska, from non-natives; shipped it to Indonesia to be carved into fake &quot;Native&quot; carvings; then shipped the carvings back to Alaska where they could be sold with fake COAs as genuine native work.</p><p>They fooled a lot of people, because the carvings were indeed made from genuine marine ivory.</p><p>(During the bust the authorities also confiscated over 10,000 small bone carvings, which were not technically contraband.&nbsp; They auctioned these off, and sadly, to this day, one sees those little carvings misrepresented on and off ebay as genuine Eskimo antiquities.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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