Thread: mammoth ivory

I don`t know who put up the post about where to find mammoth ivory shavings ,I can`t find the thread ,but thanks I sent the money order off today ,Don`t worry I didn`t buy the lot ,I don`t have $US50,000 just lying around .
If you put your hand up I will let you know how it goes
Kind regards Peter

If lots of guys are interested in picking up exotic material of some sort, say mammoth ivory or something, we could try pooling out money together.

Mammoth ivory seems to drop in price once you are buying more than a set of scales.

I know a vendor in the yukon that sells mammoth ivory and will wholesale it for about $60/pound to craftsmen. you can request certain colorations and sizes if they are available. I've bought from him twice in the past and been very happy.

Anyways, let us know what you pick up. I'm sure we'll be seeing a new razor or two soon!

I know this is probably a stupid question, but I've seen this material mentioned in several places on the site and I have to ask: are you talking about the extinct-for-thousands-of-years, ice-age woolly mammoth? How on earth does anyone not associated with a museum get hold of that?

James.

Due to the numbers of mammoth, and more specifically the regions they lived in, they are very well preserved. The mammoth lived during the last ice age and many specimens are preserved in glaciers and perma frost, a frozen layer of dirt below the surface, that never thaws out, even in summer.

Alaska, the Canadian North and Northern Russia all provide thousands and thousands of frozen and preserved mammoth tusks, along with the occasional entire mammoth. Since many museums have had their fill of mammoth displays (after all, how many does one museum need) the rest find there way onto the world market.

Most tusks are broken and sold by the pound as an alternative to elephant ivory. Since mammoth are extinct, there are no international laws (CITES) that ogvern the trade of the ivory, so it is 100% legal, anywhere, anytime.

The good condition tusks can sell for 10,000- 20,000$ per piece. If you've got an extra $150,000 kicking around, you can pick up an entire wooly mammoth skeleton.

That, and I have a breeding pair of mammoth in my backyard. Shh. Don't tell.

Matt, I won't tell anyone if you make me a matching Ebony/Ivory brush+stand (to keep the Ebony/silver company) AND knit me a nice warm mammoth-wool sweater, to come with about 150lbs of meat

I love the stuff and have been temted more than once to buy one of those cool Dovo's with the Mammoth engraved on the scales. Anybody have one of those?
The crusted ivory is great looking to.