[Sca-cooks] Ivory

[Dan Phelps]

Was asked:

> Anyone know what the legality is of re-working legal ivory?  My mom has a
> large collection of ivory with a number of very large pieces.  In the end
> when they pass to me or my daughter it would be interesting to know if it
is
> still legal if it is re-worked into another likeness.  If I can't I shall
> just stick it in a museum.

I'm not a lawyer but as you can show through their provenance, i.e. that
they are old inherited pieces, that the original material is legal it seems
to me that anything made from them should be legal as well.

Daniel Raoul