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<p>[QUOTE="George Chaney, post: 4309944, member: 19137"]As Ce BCA said, if no one in your family wants them, you can either keep them yourself and put them in the attic where one day, they may be worth more than gold when we finish killing off the rest of the elephants.....or.... you can take them down to your local reputable auction house for evaluation to determine if they can be sold or if your local laws require you to turn them in.</p><p><br /></p><p>Given your family member had them, I am thinking they were not under any obligation to turn them in. While my humble opinion, if they were in my possession, my options would be exclusively to keep them and put them away for the future. As I said, they continue to kill elephants in Africa and Asia and eventually they will go extinct. When that happens, the bans on the sale of elephant ivory will no longer make sense.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would not recommend you sell them directly to anyone outside of a reputable auction house, nor would I recommend you give them away to someone. Even today, Ivory is very, very valuable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="George Chaney, post: 4309944, member: 19137"]As Ce BCA said, if no one in your family wants them, you can either keep them yourself and put them in the attic where one day, they may be worth more than gold when we finish killing off the rest of the elephants.....or.... you can take them down to your local reputable auction house for evaluation to determine if they can be sold or if your local laws require you to turn them in. Given your family member had them, I am thinking they were not under any obligation to turn them in. While my humble opinion, if they were in my possession, my options would be exclusively to keep them and put them away for the future. As I said, they continue to kill elephants in Africa and Asia and eventually they will go extinct. When that happens, the bans on the sale of elephant ivory will no longer make sense. I would not recommend you sell them directly to anyone outside of a reputable auction house, nor would I recommend you give them away to someone. Even today, Ivory is very, very valuable.[/QUOTE]
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