Elephant ivory photo fix!

And an old Lovett Lampasas utility hunter with Ivory, and Nu-Bark finish on guard and bolsters. About 1987-89 if I rember correctly.
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Joss, The Rob Brown knife handled in ivory is here in the USA. Believe it or not the ivory on this knife is inner core mammoth ivory that I sent to Rob to put on the knife. It's a really nice piece.
Joss, my error I have a knife like the one pictured in mammoth ivory. Sorry for any confusion.
 
2toes said:
Joss, The Rob Brown knife handled in ivory is here in the USA. Believe it or not the ivory on this knife is inner core mammoth ivory that I sent to Rob to put on the knife. It's a really nice piece.
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It's a great knife and a nice piece of ivory, but if this is mammoth, it shouldn't be in this thread (and yes, I know you didn't post it - I'm just saying...) :) I have 2 nice mastodon ivory core knives he's made too...
 
Joss,
I see no reason to edit my post. I said what I mean and I'll stick by it, but I also won't reply to follow-ups to it as I don't see the need to make it an ongoing discussion or potentially something more (worse?). I am also glad to see that the thread didn't get side-tracked.

As for Rob Brown knives:
Rob has made many knives with beautiful elephant ivory handles. As far as I know though, those knives have to remain in South Africa. They are not for export.

Other than that, its great to see that a lot more fabulous looking knives have been posted since this morning.
 
Rob will make Ivory Knives for customers in the USA, But the customer has to supply, and document the ivory. Mike
 
a few more to add to the mix -- great thread.

Denis Friedly and Linda Karst

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Harvey McBurnette - sole authorship

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Fred Slee

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Lyle Courtice and Warren Hargraves

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W.C. "Bill" Johnson

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George Cousino and Ray Beers Alward carvings

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GREAT thread. Quite a treat to view. It would be a TOUGH call but I think Murray_White's pics get the prize.

Peter
 
Thor I am said:
If people complained that the "barbarism" comment was stupid, then this one ranks right up there with it on the idiocy scale!:eek:

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).
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The poaching actually was as bad or worse after the ban. Park rangers were outgunned because they were carrying big bore bolt action rifles designed to deal with pissed off pachyderms and the gangs of poachers, who were selling primarily to the Asian and Middle Eastern markets (same as with Rhino horn....it will allegedly make your willy hard and your jambiya the talk of the neighborhood) were armed with FN FAL's and AKM's left over from the various and sundry colonial wars and revolutions of the 60's and 70's. My reading leads me to believe that the African elephant has staged quite the comeback...to the point where some are becoming nuisance animals much like bears in some parts of the US and have to be movedor killed. The idea that you can't buy ivory harvested from carcasses by the very same people who are fighting the poachers is just silly. Feel good legislation that denies those who are attemtping to protect the elephant a potential source of funding in countries where cash for such programs is kinda thin on the ground. Marvelous knives, by the way. i have a little piece of LEGAL ivory i am eventually going to use for inlay.
 
SharpByCoop said:
I could clog up this thread. ;)

My own collection has a number of exampls:

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LOOK closely at the RH scale in the butt end. You can see the nerve in the center of the tusk:

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This one will fill in the blanks for a few onlookers and make others cry...

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I have two other ivory Pearce's, and they are wonderful, but they have notable cracks in them. This stuff is natural and fragile.

Great thread. :thumbup:

Coop
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OUCH!!!!! I WANT that Khyber knife:D
 
Evil Eye Earl said:
These are Clay Gault's w/Elephant Ivory and hide sheath's

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Earl :) ,

That is an extremely nice outfit.

I have both knife sheaths and boots made of Elephant hide. It is absolutely BULLETPROOF. I am sure that my elephant hide boots will wear out about 300years after I die of old age.

When I go home to Texas, I can wade through acres of Sawbriars and never get a mark on them.

Steve
 
Great pics guys - a most enjoyable thread.

I believe this is the only Elephant ivory knife I have ever owned - a slick little piece by Bailey Bradshaw:

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There is a place to discuss the ethics, politics and ecomonics of ivory harvesting and it is most surely not this thread.

Roger
 
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