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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 222424, member: 25"]I am pretty sure it is not rhino horn. For a start rhino horn is solid and most of the items apart from the side horns show a hollow centre. Secondly rhino horn has been much in demand for Chinese medicine for centuries, it had a high value whenever these pieces were made, so high that your set would have cost many thousands of much less inflated dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have sold and handled a few rhino horn items and have some within arms reach at this moment.</p><p>In Britain you can have items of worked rhino horn tested and certified as legal by a government laboratory for a reasonable price, they give a certificate that makes the items legal to sell.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the friend's friend might be asked to put his money where his mouth is and buy some very reasonably priced rhino horn.</p><p><br /></p><p>That cup looks like rhino to me but I'd have to see the actual thing..[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 222424, member: 25"]I am pretty sure it is not rhino horn. For a start rhino horn is solid and most of the items apart from the side horns show a hollow centre. Secondly rhino horn has been much in demand for Chinese medicine for centuries, it had a high value whenever these pieces were made, so high that your set would have cost many thousands of much less inflated dollars. I have sold and handled a few rhino horn items and have some within arms reach at this moment. In Britain you can have items of worked rhino horn tested and certified as legal by a government laboratory for a reasonable price, they give a certificate that makes the items legal to sell. I think the friend's friend might be asked to put his money where his mouth is and buy some very reasonably priced rhino horn. That cup looks like rhino to me but I'd have to see the actual thing..[/QUOTE]
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