Illegal ivory

[Gregory Torres]

It is not illegal to resell used ivory-most of the piano supply houses carry
"re-conditioned" ivory heads and tails...

Greg Torres

-----Original Message-----
From: Wallace Scherer <WallyTS@CompuServe.COM>
To: INTERNET:pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 1997 3:26 PM
Subject: Illegal ivory


>I certainly have never heard that it is illegal to resell used ivory
>products. I think the ivory laws only prevent the exportation of raw ivory
>from countries which produce it.
>
>An article in Readers Digest this last year shows that the ivory laws are
>no longer necessary.
>
>Wally Scherer
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>