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Originally Posted by xasterix
It's not so difficult to receive ivory, from a Filipino POV (importation, incoming). However, it's very difficult- or probably even impossible- to export ivory (PH to other countries).
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Hi Xas,
There is a significant risk importing any ivory-containing item into Australia. Like the U.S. and Europe, we have enforcement of CITES regulations and confiscation/destruction of ivory-containing items without the required certification, which is expensive and difficult to obtain. Thus, this lot would have been of little interest to (law-abiding) collectors in countries that enforce the CITES requirements.
Regards, Ian
P.S. Did you happen to know the collector who put this lot up for auction?