new ivory info

[Farrell]

AND, my understanding is that there is a fair bit of ivory that has been in
storage in museums and was harvested well before any bans took place. This
documented ivory is also on the market. I believe this is this source for
much of what in currently available. AND it think most of the ivory is from
elephants, rather than whales.

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "J Patrick Draine" <draine@mediaone.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: new ivory info


> >I thought it was illegal to sell ivory, new OR used, so as not to
> >encourage the killing of whales to feed the market. What's the story?
> >
> >Charles
>
> It's illegal to import ivory if it doesn't have the proper
> documentation indicating its legal status (for example, I believe
> some Indian ivory is legal because it's harvested from domesticated
> elephants dying of natural causes). Ivory already already in the US
> is under no particular regulation (that I know of).
>
> Patrick
>