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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 1502640, member: 111&quot;]Don&#039;t know if eBay&#039;s regulations in Italy vary, but you have this item listed for sale in the U.S., where eBay prohibits selling &#039;Ivory or bones from ivory producing animals&#039; without exception, and import/export to/from another country is illegal, period, and could cost you dearly.&nbsp; Even selling under the CITES exceptions requires documentation regarding the item&#039;s age and origin - though it&#039;s sold all the time, selling legally, with all the restrictions is seldom worth it.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-items/animal-products-policy?id=5046&amp;st=3&amp;pos=1&amp;query=Animal%20products%20policy&amp;intent=ivory&amp;lucenceai=lucenceai" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-items/animal-products-policy?id=5046&amp;st=3&amp;pos=1&amp;query=Animal%20products%20policy&amp;intent=ivory&amp;lucenceai=lucenceai" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-items/animal-products-policy?id=5046&amp;st=3&amp;pos=1&amp;query=Animal products policy&amp;intent=ivory&amp;lucenceai=lucenceai</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As long as I&#039;ve been around antiques, long before the internet, these have been called page turners, so it is a fairly long-standing term, found in reference books and auction catalogs, but seem to recall looking for them termed as such in old catalogs, and don&#039;t believe I had luck either - so applaud the gentleman&#039;s research (will say, given the widespread use, would be worth describing along the lines of, &#039;often called a page turner&#039;.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Though it may be incorrect, how their use was explained to me, and the reason for their being made of ivory, bone, MOP, wood, etc. rather than metal, was that the page edges were burnished with the flat side for a crisper cut with the blade, and then the pages turned with it to avoid soiling the pages, or with newspapers, etc., soiling one&#039;s hands or gloves with ink.&nbsp; All that said, perhaps the &#039;page turner&#039; name came from subsequent use - have seen them used by antique book dealers/conservators to support and turn fragile pages...</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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