<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1479" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sarah said:"<FONT face="Times New = Roman" size=3>There's an active, highly visible market for used ivory.  = It's OK to buy =<BR>and sell ivory, as long as it's used.  You just can't = import it."</FONT><BR><BR>That is not necessarily true. It is legal to import = Ivory, in tusk form, IF it has  the proper "serial number", properly affixed.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ownership of Mastadon Ivory and Walrus = Ivory is Strictly forbidden.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sales of used Ivory, such as olde = keytops/fronts is perfectly legal.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I save all of the scrap, (i.e. broken = stuff), and fill up coffee cans, then give/sell to luthiers, etc. They use it for = inlays, etc.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best Regards,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe Garrett, R.P.T.<BR>Captain, Tool Police<BR>Squares R I</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>