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<p>[QUOTE="blooey, post: 1204311, member: 12007"]Back in the 80's, F&W officers showed up at Californian Antique shows and confiscated anything made of tortoiseshell, took the stuff right out of the seller's booths.</p><p>This was a bad time to own any as you couldn't give it away in the bay area once the word got out. Unfortunately, I was running the west coast at the time and had almost a black garbage bag full of 18th c tortoiseshell objets d'art incl. Teacaddies, pique jewellery, snuff boxes, card cases, you name it - I had it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Impossible to sell any and not wanting to cross the border back to Canada with any, I left it in San Francisco with a colleague ...many many years later he sent me a cheque for the whole lot ...either $80 or $18 ..can't remember which ...keep in mind that in those days, <b>one </b>18thc teacaddy in good nick could bring upwards of $1000 back in Vancouver ...oh well, win some, lose some <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="blooey, post: 1204311, member: 12007"]Back in the 80's, F&W officers showed up at Californian Antique shows and confiscated anything made of tortoiseshell, took the stuff right out of the seller's booths. This was a bad time to own any as you couldn't give it away in the bay area once the word got out. Unfortunately, I was running the west coast at the time and had almost a black garbage bag full of 18th c tortoiseshell objets d'art incl. Teacaddies, pique jewellery, snuff boxes, card cases, you name it - I had it. Impossible to sell any and not wanting to cross the border back to Canada with any, I left it in San Francisco with a colleague ...many many years later he sent me a cheque for the whole lot ...either $80 or $18 ..can't remember which ...keep in mind that in those days, [B]one [/B]18thc teacaddy in good nick could bring upwards of $1000 back in Vancouver ...oh well, win some, lose some :rolleyes::wideyed:[/QUOTE]
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