Hi All,
The ivorycould possibly be walrus. Goeff Wooff used old walrus pieces
that I think he bought in NZ years ago in the limited number of sets
of pipes that he made. Then again am happy to be proven wrong!!
Regards,
Guy T
--- On Wed, 15/2/12, John Dally
A lot of the ivory actually came from old billiard and snooker balls as
well and a lot of of them (and other ivory work) came from mammoth tusks
from Russia. Europeans used ivory mainly for piano keys and cutlery handles!
I remember being advised to look out for them to make some bits for the
If that recent footage of a mammoth-shaped object fording a river in
Chukhotka in the Russian Far East turns out not to have been faked,
then presumably the species goes on the CITES list pretty sharpish, and
carrying smallpipes across borders gets harder...
John
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