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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;808 raver, post: 12058042, member: 4654&quot;]The truth is I started collecting these well before the ivory ban thinking if I could assemble the whole set I might find the right box. I would then make the fitted insert for all the puzzles but today with the ivory ban here in the UK it has to be less than 10% of the weight of the item for it to not be included, once these full puzzle boxes were going for a fortune, just the 2 burr puzzles were around £800 and the carved little boxes used to fetch around £200, you would always see the odd puzzle on ebay but today you never see them. I don&#039;t mind bone, I think one I have is bone. I&#039;m afraid even if I could find all the puzzles and find the right box and make the insert I still wouldn&#039;t be able to sell it. I bought the lacquered box they sit in because it&#039;s right for the age of the puzzles and maybe if I sold the whole lot together it wouldn&#039;t break the rules <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> The 2 burr puzzles were one of 2 things I owned that was caught up in the ivory ban and I managed to get both burr puzzles for almost nothing in a lot when the seller didn&#039;t know what they were because they were dismantled. Fortunately (apart from one box) all the other antiques I own with ivory have less than 10%, even the box that&#039;s solid ivory I can still apply for a licence but these puzzles will never be able to be sold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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