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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 220879, member: 55&quot;]Here it is....a listing for the 2005 auction, posted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service:</p><p>&quot;The to-be-auctioned materials were included in a collection of wildlife and non-wildlife items, including products crafted from rare, endangered, and threatened species, which was smuggled into the United States by a dealer in animal products. This dealer also unlawfully removed old ivory and bones from federal lands in northern Alaska, which were then exported and carved in Indonesia. As a result of those violations the entire collection was forfeited to the United States government. Proceeds from this auction will serve two purposes: They will be used to reimburse victims who unknowingly purchased stolen mammoth ivory carvings from the smuggler, and to reimburse an account designated to fund the storage of wildlife evidence and the payment of rewards for those furnishing information to combat wildlife crime.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In addition, the collection includes more than 10,000 carved cow bone amulet pendants carved into various shapes, including harpoons, birds, eagles, eagle claws, bears, bear skulls, waves, fishhooks wolf heads, antlers and walrus.&quot;</p><p>(The animal called a cow in Indonesia is more like what most people would call a water buffalo; leading to the fact that on ebay anything sold as a buffalo bone carving is almost certainly made from Indonesian cow-bone.)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.fws.gov/news/ShowNews.cfm?newsId=3728CDF1-65BF-03E7-2EB6B9419ABFC5C1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.fws.gov/news/ShowNews.cfm?newsId=3728CDF1-65BF-03E7-2EB6B9419ABFC5C1" rel="nofollow">https://www.fws.gov/news/ShowNews.cfm?newsId=3728CDF1-65BF-03E7-2EB6B9419ABFC5C1</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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