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Intricately-carved Chinese elephant tusks that are biggest to ever go sale, set to fetch mammoth £250,000 at British auction. They were made during China’s Qing Dynasty between 1644 and 1912 ...
It’s a carved elephant tusk about 26 inches long. It was made for Kate Smith. A: For readers unfamiliar with the name, singer Kate Smith (1907-1986) was once called “America’s Songbird.” ...
Guests often miss the three-foot long carved elephant tusk that’s displayed on a side table in the living room of Marie Washington’s Locust Point home. “They usually go right for the ...
Beijing (CNN)When Li Chunke started carving ivory in 1964, the number of elephants in Africa was still on the rise. Demand for ivory in China was practically non-existent and tusks could be bought ...
“This is the best,” the Daxin Ivory Carving Factory’s Feng tells me, holding up a chunk of forest elephant tusk. Carvings made from forest elephant ivory sell out so quickly that customers ...
The total value of the wildlife trafficked by Ferdinand Krizan, of Franklinville, ,NY, according to the DEC, was $141,877. As part of the plea, he will give up about 100 pieces of ivory carvings ...
Two elaborately carved elephant tusks stand inside a display case at the Canton Bazaar in San Francisco's Chinatown, elegant reminders of a tragic, escalating world crisis. Booming global sales of ...
And in 2017, a New York-based antiques dealer received a felony conviction for selling elephant ivory mislabeled as “carved mammoth tusks.” Some experts believe mammoth ivory should be banned ...