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Ch. 12: Commerce of Ivory

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THE COMMERCE OF IVORY 471
"ball ivory," which brought as much or even a little more than at the earlier sales. The regular October sales were indefinitely postponed, but many private transactions have taken place. In these, hard ivory has maintained its price, but the less valuable qualities, such for instance as the grades known in the trade as "soft scrivelloes" and "cut hollows," have found little demand. It is noteworthy, however, that in general the dealings in ivory have been less seriously interfered with than those in most other articles of luxury. The supplies of Egyptian and West Coast African ivory have been larger in 1914 than in 1913. But few walrus tusks have been received, the demand being slack and the prices lower; a limited quantity of boars' tusks was disposed of at unchanged prices. The stock of ivory on hand in London at the close of 1914 was 188 tons, against 105 tons at the end of 1913, this notable increase being due to the transfer from Antwerp of a large quantity of Congo ivory.*
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