New Jersey Ivory ban....

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Originally Posted by David

Though i am not sure what part of a deer might be considered ivory… :

Barking deer ?.... photo attached.

Originally Posted by David

These new laws, however, are, for the most part, directed at elephant ivory in an attempt to end the poaching of elephants specifically. Though i would imagine that most of the inspectors probably wouldn't be able to distinguish elephant from marine ivory.

I guess it might be possible to develop on the spot chemical tests such as are currently carried in drug test field kits? or maybe not?

There is already a raft of laws re. walrus ivory in place in USA, one can presume the enforcement of those laws may receive a higher priority than in the last decade though.

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Awesome skull Spiral…vampire deer!

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They are arnt they!

& Not to forget the Chinese water deer...

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Another nice one…i'm not so sure that these long incisors actually qualify as ivory per se, but they are cool. Probably too small for the kind of usage we generally see on old weapons (whole hilts or hilt scales for instance), but still very interesting.

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For sure! It would have to be a tiny shamshir!

Just the nearest thing to deer ivory there is... they are sold as tusks not teeth & used for some tribal jewellery I think, in far east.

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[Robert]

These might be large enough for a small knife hilt.

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Originally Posted by Robert

These might be large enough for a small knife hilt.

Certainly large enough for a karda & chakmak!

But hes watching you... & listening with those teddy bear ears!

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