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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;808 raver, post: 6880705, member: 4654&quot;]I have come back to this thread because the UK Gov have made antiques containing above 10% ivory so expensive to sell it&#039;s not worth buying or selling them. When I posted in defence of their ban I did so thinking they would take a sensible approach but now there&#039;s a non refundable £250 to get each item registered + a £20 cost to transfer to a new owner. £250 for someone to tell me if they think it&#039;s &quot;The rarest and most important items of their type. These must be items of outstanding artistic, cultural or historic value, and made prior to 1918&quot; Who decides? they haven&#039;t made anything clear, like if you have a A1 vanity box made in Pairs with silver lids ect and inside there are fitted ivory brushes are those brushes to be removed because they are single items or does the boxes &quot;volume&quot; make the brushes less than 10%? Will the stupid cost of registration push up items of ivory or will the market decide it&#039;s just not worth the cost and bother? This ban needs to be re-thought, or some of the rarest (and best made) antiques will be lost because the market can&#039;t take an extra £270 on each item. IMHO this ban favours the rich whose items can easily take the extra cost but items us mere mortals collect will be stuck in homes until we go, never being able to increase in value and never becoming worth getting registered. If you can only pass on or give away your ivory containing antiques what happens when nobody you know shares your interest? Just imagine no silver 18th c knifes with ivory handles because each knife is a single registration, in fact any single item that can&#039;t take an extra £270 on the cost will be lost, are we really going lose that much history especially given that most top end items were made with ivory back in the day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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