Ethiopian 19th century Gurade

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Originally Posted by kronckew

in 2013: pprox. prices to nearest dollar

rhino horn:..USD 2800 per gram
gold:...........USD 53 per gram

it has fallen a bit since.

According to all the undercover purchases & siezures by Rhino horn charitys , its More like $10 to £15 a gram in Europe, $50 to $60 in Vietnam & China, up to $100 a gram for Asiatic rhino, as end user price. Evry trader makes a big mark up.


If it was $2800 a gram there would be not one rhino left in the world, nor jambiya or Gurade with a rhino grip.

In China its used as a fever cure.

Some desperate people in Vietnam with cancer believe it might cure them... it doesn't.

Many newly rich in Vietnam take it along with cocaine & Viagra to party. Those types also say it helps hangovers.

Either way there better drugs for everything, Rhino does reduce fever slightly, {like asprin.}

But soon there will be no rhinos, in the last 5 years over 50 museums around the world have been robbed of rhino horns by an Irish gang called the Rathkeale rovers.

In India, rhino already have been killed in zoos. In England a plot to do the same was thwarted.

In Africa they will at current rate be extinct within a couple of decades.

If the price goes up even faster...

Gurade have been striped since at least the 1970s by Yeminis to make jambiya, the always sold the off cuts to the Chinese.

All this is well recorded.


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[kronckew]

even at that price, still higher than gold (tho gold is much more useful as a real rather than as a placebo anti-cancer medicinal agent) for the end user. if they want keratin as a medicine, there are a lot handier sources. they could chew their finger nails or hair balls and get more at very little cost..

price i had was copied from a quick google, i wasn't on a quest for greater accuracy.

Medicinal gold uses

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I totally agree, I think someone sell them ground up toenails instead!

[kronckew]

i know a chiropodist that could supply them in bulk; a few pounds of toenails should set us up for life.

i could buy the nice gold trimmed wootz kilij i've always wanted, plus a house to show it off in.

hmmm, ....now where did i put his phone number.

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That's Good! I feel a plan coming together!

But thinking about it, those who buy it in powder form are probably buying old toenails already!

After all every stage of the trade is illegal, even in Vietnam , So I am sure the poachers,dealers,smuglers etc. have already adulterated it & what better than stinky old toenails!

[kronckew]

our market is expanding!