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Originally Posted by Andrew
Indeed. 
And yet, antique ivory is so much more common and ubiquitous than rare rhino horn...
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Very true Andrew, us Europeans had wiped out c.80% of them by 1920.
And there more family based creatures rather than vast herds, that elephants once were.
Then if horn not stored properly over the years, it gets the eaten by the dreaded dermistids! {& of course always being consumed in old Chinese & Indian medicine.}
But the new range of American state laws seem to be allying ivory & rhino together?
Either way, as much as I would like nature to have a chance to recover a bit, {In truth not very likely to happen.
} I sincerely hope true antiques are not destroyed, they are part of history & in a some cases stunning & amazing works of art, as well.
I fear some will be with badly written & enforced laws though.
spiral