Mammoth Ivory

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hilltopper46

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I bought this on a trip to Alaska and the Yukon in 2010. I cut it up as shown in the pictures. I made one pen from it.

If you have never worked with this material before I recommend you do not purchase it. You should plan to stabilize the material to reduce its tendency to crack after turning.

The pieces shown could be cast with a contrasting resin to make composite pen blanks.

You can see there are a number of pieces of varying thickness, all about 8 inches long. The three shorter pieces along the right side of the picture are the most solid pieces of the lot.

You get everything in the photos, including a number of smaller chips that came off the large main piece, shown separately in a yellow container.

I am asking $150 which includes shipping in a medium FR box, USA only. Reasonable offers considered.
 

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KenV

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Just curious. The mammoth is extinct. How were you able to purchase a tusk. Quite a find.

It come out of the permafrost in northern Russia,Canada, and Alaska. Fossilized and often found as river banks erode. Most is highly fractured.

It is all expensive and some times "rustled".
 
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