Thread: Costs of mammoth ivory?

That is beautiful material, Magnus.
Are you a chef?

Originally Posted by Hart

Color is something I hadn't even considered.

With fossil mammoth and walrus,color is everything.
But beware,it is not easy to work with,you normally need to stabilize alot of cracks.

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

That is beautiful material, Magnus.
Are you a chef?

No but i i love cooking with quality :P

Like Pixel said. its important to get it stabilized by a pro place like K&G.

Mammoth Molar.

The cost on the ivory I was quoted was $150usd for a 6x2"x3/8 blank.
I'd love to try my hand at it but have never tried bone, or many other less expensive materials still. I'd hate to botch a fossil..
:-)

If you're in NY it ain't an issue

New NY law bans most ivory sales | syracuse.com

Note the law that includes mammoth in the ban ....... poaching woolly mammoths ?

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

If you're in NY it ain't an issue

New NY law bans most ivory sales | syracuse.com

Note the law that includes mammoth in the ban ....... poaching woolly mammoths ?

N.Y and N.J laws are stupid,how can you ban something that died 20K+++++ yrs ago??.This entire fiasco is being driven by the DFG,who have lost almost all federal funding.

Originally Posted by RoyalCake

I haven't shopped around so I don't have any helpful info to the OP, but I'm just amazed it's out there in circulation. To know you are in posession of such a cool material is amazing to me - seems like the price would be out of reach. I think I've only seen the Dovo with it. Be sure to post when you use it!
Maybe there's more of it around than I think?

There are litreally thousands of people looking for them, that, along with the collapse of the soviet way of life and global warming has helped, the latter by freeing indidual mammoths and sometimes whole herds from the permafrost of the siberian tundra that became their grave during the last ice age.

They do of course come from other ice bound regions, too. I remember seeing a baby mammoth, complete with hair and looking more asleep than dead on a tv show once, and reading about people who had thawed the flesh and ate it.

Still, at least they had a couple of horns, unlike the dear old walrus who has only one oosik which is also held in esteem for much the same reason as mammoth ivory.

If a bygone walrus could see what folk do with its oosik then, unlike the capenter in Lewis Carrol's The Walrus & The Carpenter, it would be the walrus who shed a bitter tear!

At the risk of mixing metaphors, slabbing-up an oosik for scales must rank as the unkindest cut of all...

Regards,
Neil

Actually, most mammoth that comes to market (the drab brown colors) is dreged out of the sea around greenland.
Neil. 3 animals have an oosik,do you know which ones?, the smallest one, they make toothpicks out of them

Some of the old timers around here have those little bone toothpicks.