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Marthe48

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2. I just don't know what I'm looking at
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 08:04 PM
Jul 2020

I see some lines, and there are cracks that are darker than the surface. There is a chip off the tip and the interior is very white, compared to the outer surface.

I heard that all ivory sales, no matter how old the item, were banned for sale in the U.S. and some other countries. At the time I bought this, that ban hadn't been made law.

I read a long time ago, that many piano keys were made from celluloid, but don't know much more than that

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If it's ivory safeinOhio Jul 2020 #1
I just don't know what I'm looking at Marthe48 Jul 2020 #2
That is what heard too. safeinOhio Jul 2020 #3
Is it illegal to sell animal bone in the U.S.? Uben Sep 2020 #4
I wasn't familiar with the term Marthe48 Sep 2020 #5
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