I think there will be the same issues with the molar tooth. If declared as mammoth molar too. A hundred years ago nobody dig for mammoth molar in siberia or alaska while these tooth were availiable from the same source as tusk…….asian elephants. My informations are that all kind of materials from elephants are banned like molar tooth and leather ( if you had the chance to hold elephant leather in your hand you well ever identify it). The chance to get „trouble“ with customs will be lower..maybe.
Schreger lines in tusk will be different from elephant and mammoth. A research will give the possibility to proof if it‘s mammouth or not and a possibility for customs to decide if illegal or not. I do not know if there are visible differences if you compare molar tooth. So there will be a risk if you just say „believe me it is mammoth“ As a knifemaker I have grinded some fresh molar and some mammoth molar. The smell is realy different. And the color was nearly the same from that fresh tooth in comparison to that grips on the pictures above.
Best Thomas
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