Featured Pre ban ivory

Hi All ! I received a vintage ivory bead necklace with a lot of antique and vintage jewelry. The only venue I sell on at the moment is ebay and they don't allow ANY ivory to be sold, pre ban included.
What do you joolies do with ivory items you come across that you don't want to keep ?
It's worth something and I don't want to toss it but I'm not sure what to do with it.
My daughter doesn't want it and it's too small for me.

 

try selling it here...? eh ?
if not...local may be your only avenue...

 

I sell my pre ban ivory on a local Dutch site. As long as you put in the listing it is before 1947, it is ok. But that is overhere, and just one site, the others all require expensive official appraisal certificates as proof.
I don't know what it is like in your area, take it to a local shop maybe?.

 

Thank you komokwa and Anyjewelry. Komokwa, I didn't realize you could sell items here on the forum until I saw your reply and scrolled down and found the category for it, I may try that.
Any, I'm not sure where I would find a local buyer here that wouldn't want a certificate as well, so they could sell it. None of my personal friends/dealers wear it or sell it either.
I may try one of my local facebook yardsale groups, someone may want it.
Thanks again !

 

I have 2 rings and a bangle bracelet from a lot I am not sure what to do with. I know they are not new but maybe not pre 1947, anyway I can't prove their age. So for now I am taking take them out of my selling stock and maybe I'll keep them

 

Dont sell it. Give it away.
The less ivory trade the better!
Poor elephants.

 

Hi,
With all of the tucks that get destroyed every year there would be plenty of ivory to be carved and would stop the new killing of the animals. I have seen photos of tons of ivory being burned. I do not know what the answer is.
greg

 

I will buy nice carved antique ivory but beads are just boring.

 

I have, what I think, a beautiful ivory bangle with carved elephants and sterling silver hinged clasp. I've had it for many years but have never worn it and would like to sell. Where would you suggest a good sight to post offering? Thank you

 

your local high end antique dealer might take it in...

 

After the guy on Nantucket got busted for buying and selling new ivory scrimshaw, locals seem hesitant to even look at pre-ban. I agree with greg. Burning it doesn't stop the problem.

 

Ya...but I have no idea where Kris is ??
It would be funny though, if she were in Australia !!

 

pretty necklace

 

I'm really just venting. I am as horrified as anyone over the slaughter of the last remaining elephants to produce knickknacks & for traditional 'medicine'. But whenever there is a well-publicized crushing or burning of confiscated ivory or tusks, I know that if I were in the illegal trade I would see these actions as benefiting me, because they reduce supply without reducing demand, making ivory all the more valuable, all the more worth taking risks to get.

Demand is not coming from western nations. There is no doubt enough antique & vintage ivory, such as this necklace, to satisfy this part of the world. China closed down some ivory carving workshops, but that also does nothing to reduce demand. I'm convinced that the best way to drastically reduce the demand in Asia is to convince the men that just so much as looking at ivory will cause impotence. Maybe instead of paying wardens to try to catch poachers we should be spending the money to provide free Viagra.

I have a couple of ivory bracelets that my mother bought when it was legal. I would not mind donating the proceeds to an elephant conservation effort if I were allowed to sell them. The ivory pieces in my collection, although I do not have the supporting documentation, do not look like anything being made now. I have felt that treasuring them & appreciating their beauty is a way of honoring the elephants who lost their lives so they could be made.