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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 220865, member: 55&quot;]I&#039;ve saved a link on my other PC, an official statement from the US Fish and Wildlife folks, or at least quoting such a release.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ll have to find it and see if it is still an active link.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; They broke up the ring of criminals, and confiscated a huge amount of ivory, illegally obtained in Alaska, which was in Indonesia to be carved before being returned to the US to be misrepresented as native work.</p><p>One of the most interesting aspects is that they also confiscated <u>10,000</u> small bone carvings which were otherwise legal, and because those were not contraband they auctioned them off: &quot;harpoons, birds, eagles, eagle claws, bears, bear skulls, waves, fishhooks, wolf heads, antlers and walrus...&quot;</p><p>I strongly suspect that these would have been sold in lots to middlemen, and that they shortly appeared on ebay and elsewhere as the Indonesian bone carvings that we&#039;ve both seen represented as Alaskan, Eskimo, Canadian......</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]65446[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]65461[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]65460[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]65447[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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