Thread: My last pce of Coromandel(:

A very simple brush,Some feel it is the finest wood god ever created,Tend to agree.
Wood came from India and the tree is long Extinct,Sad that a tree can become extinct
Never to grow again.

That is sad, but the tree lives on in that brush handle.

On the coast of Caromandel,
Where the early pumpkins blow,
In the middle of the woods,
Lives the Yongy Bongy Boo.

Two chairs and half a candle,
One jug, without a handle,
These are all the worldly goods,
Of the Yongy Bongy Boo,
Of the Yongy, Bongy Boo.

Edward Lear - it goes on for a few more verses if you are interested.

Coromandel was an area of Southern India I believe - and I assume that's where the tree gets its name from.

I have a vision of Bill being buried with his last remnants of Ivory piled up on his lap. In a few thousand years time when the Earth is dead, visitors from outer space will be excavating the planet and thinking they know everything about what used to be the human race, when, suddenly one of them chances across Bill's burial mound - of course his bones will long ago have turned to dust, but the alien will announce that he has found a different species- one that had a cock of Ivory.

Looks priceless sir. It is to bad somebody didn't have the foresight to propagate a hundred or so of those trees. Would be the most valuable land on the planet.

Originally Posted by UKRob

I have a vision of Bill being buried with his last remnants of Ivory piled up on his lap. In a few thousand years time when the Earth is dead, visitors from outer space will be excavating the planet and thinking they know everything about what used to be the human race, when, suddenly one of them chances across Bill's burial mound - of course his bones will long ago have turned to dust, but the alien will announce that he has found a different species- one that had a cock of Ivory.

Lord I hope not.I cut my tips to only 10 inches

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Nice work, Pixel. Really nice!

I have seen you say some of the old 7-day set boxes were made from it. Is this one, ya think?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Nice work, Pixel. Really nice!

I have seen you say some of the old 7-day set boxes were made from it. Is this one, ya think?

Cannot tell from the pic,looks Like ebony.Coro, is in the same family tho and considerd an Ebony.
Go to the bay and search Coromandel,lots of nice examples.

Very nice, I don't think anyone here would consider it selfish if you kept that one for yourself.