I found the Mastadon comment interesting. Are we talking the big hairy extinct ones? If so, COOL.
Hunter
I bought my wife a bracelet in Homer Ak., on one of my trips, made from silver and Mastodon tusk veneer. It is a chain of about 1/2" square silver "plates" covered by the fossilized ivory. It is legal to own and transport since it is considered fossilized and no longer ivory. Somehow the fossilized ivory differs visually from non-fossilized ivory. I know that since I got challenged at the Canadian Boarder at Beaver Creek. There was one agent there who knew the difference and I was allowed to go--with it still in my possession. They were so focused on the bracelet they never found the safely stowed ivory (Walrus Tusk) scrimshaw that I did not declare.
I believe, but could be wrong, that only first nation people can legally collect Mastodon tusks.
To answer your question Hunter, yes, Mastodons---not the Big Wooly Monmouth which is a distinctly different species.
Last edited by Dave Grubb; 07-25-2021 at 11:24 AM.
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Come to think of it, I don’t really recollect if the promo for my knife said the scales were Mastodon to Mammoth. I never made a distinction before Dave straightened us out. I’m thinking more toward Mammoth now. Which ever is more rare, collectible and pricy, I’m going with that!
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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
“This looks supercool,” says Rebekah Rogers at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. “It’s bringing together paleontology and genetics on a deeper timescale than ever before.”
- NewScientist
This gets better and better.
Hunter
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