> 1. Is it legal to sell old ivory keytops Yes > 2. Is it legal to buy old ivory keytops Yes > 3. Would it be legal to buy an old tusk found at an estate sale and cut new > keys from it? Yes, Why not? > Would there need to be some certification that this was indeed old ivory? > (I have a source that has offered to do this for me, but want to > avoid both legal > AND ethical concerns.) No > 4. What if I took an old ivory keytop to use as inlay on a guitar. Is this > illegal? Does it mean I could never take the guitar out of the country. Yes, why not? I've sold from my private collection of ivory some of the tails, which I have oodles of, specifically for inlay. > 5. Is it possibly illegal just to have the stuff lying around the shop? No! If it is I was just joking about my private collection... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA ilvey@jps.net
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