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elephant ivory

Trade in elephant tusks is, of course, now regulated internationally, in an effort to curtail poaching and save the species.

The ivory from elephants living in the highlands is softer and more desirable than ivory from elephants living in marshy areas.

Tusk of African elephant

©iStockphoto/Gerrit David de Vries

Nineteenth and early 20ᵗʰ century classifications of elephant ivory

Class	Description
Prime	Tusks weighing more than 20 pounds.
scrivelloes	Tusks weighing less than 20 pounds.
ball scrivelloes	Scrivelloes large enough to make billiard balls.
bagatelles	Too small to make billiard balls
hollows
cores
defectives

Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
Daily Consular and Trade Reports.
Nos. 75-151; Volume 2; April, May and June 1913.
Washington: U.S.G.P.O., 1913.
Page 1390.

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