Another ivory story and a case of our government really going to extremes. While I do not collect or have a real interest in this part of the antiques world, it is of interest to others. What next, go into our museums, or breakdown the doors of collectors, and destroy their collections?
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Before and after views of a c.1900 silver and ivory figure
of a beefeater by Berthold Muller. Ken Bull of John Bull
Antiques was forced to destroy the carved ivory face and
hands by the US Fish and Wildlife