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Elephant ivory photo fix!
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Bailey, that is a beauty. Right from the carved ivory to the fantastic pattern welded blade.
Some good looking Semi-Bark Ivory, About 125-150 years old. Finished this one up for a buddy a few months ago. He took the Pic, and the blade looks black, but isn't. Would look good in blued steel though! This is a Lovett-Loveless Connection NY Special, with ivory, and 416 s/s fittings. Mike
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Great looking knives everyone. I knew I could get my photo fix here. Everything from fancy presentation knives to elegant working knives. Thanks for posting!
Has anyone ever had an ivory handle crack? In my 21 years of collecting elephant ivory handles, I've only had one handle crack. It was a S.R. Johnson boot knife. Long story short, at my expense, Steve agreed to replace the ivory. Needless to say, Steve did his usual perfect work and it was a real pleasure to do business with him. What a great guy! :thumbup:
Has anyone ever had an ivory handle crack? In my 21 years of collecting elephant ivory handles, I've only had one handle crack. It was a S.R. Johnson boot knife. Long story short, at my expense, Steve agreed to replace the ivory. Needless to say, Steve did his usual perfect work and it was a real pleasure to do business with him. What a great guy! :thumbup:
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Ladies and Gentlemen 
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Here are a few thoughts about Ivory, esp. elephant
The ban on elephant ivory went into effect in 1972. Prior to that time, many shiploads of tusks (many tons) came to USA. People used to buy whole tusks to lean up on both sides of the fireplace for decoration.
The ban does not affect fossil ivory like mammoth, that is still freely available as ever.
Guess what? Elephants die of old age????
For many years to come, it will be hard to travel with ivory items in your bags due to the laws passed during the Elephant Extinction scare that has recently ended.
steve
,Here are a few thoughts about Ivory, esp. elephant
The ban on elephant ivory went into effect in 1972. Prior to that time, many shiploads of tusks (many tons) came to USA. People used to buy whole tusks to lean up on both sides of the fireplace for decoration.
The ban does not affect fossil ivory like mammoth, that is still freely available as ever.
Guess what? Elephants die of old age????
For many years to come, it will be hard to travel with ivory items in your bags due to the laws passed during the Elephant Extinction scare that has recently ended.
steve
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This one's headed to the NY show.
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These are Clay Gault's w/Elephant Ivory and hide sheath's
If people complained that the "barbarism" comment was stupid, then this one ranks right up there with it on the idiocy scale!
The "leftist" fad isn't directly killing anyone. There are lots of other products that could be bought from Africa to support their economies. How many African products have you purchased to help the children of Africa, besides wanting to buy one for your viewing pleasure that also leads to barbaric and destructive poaching?:jerkit:
Releasing the ban on ivory exports will clearly inrease the illegal poaching to the same or worse levels than in the past. Poaching that led to the crisis in the first place. It is too bad that evil people exist that do this, but that is just reality. I know that there is plenty of legal, high-quality post ban ivory available in South Africa and it would be fantastic to be able to get it out for distribution; however, once you open the floodgates, the greedy, evil ones immediately come out to play. Human nature at its best I guess. :barf:
Simply said, when MAN interrupts the natural cycle due to senseless pleasure killing, for so-called natural medicines (like Tiger-bone, what a joke), or other reasons, nature suffers - greatly!
There are times when people state that one or another grazing animal must be culled because their numbers are out of control - well, its killing their predators for no good reason that usually created the problem in the first place!
Ok, rant over, now back to our regularly scheduled program.
There are some fabulous looking knives displayed here :thumbup: (hopefully all with pre-ban ivory or with legal ivory in their respective countries).