How much can you sell elephant tusks for?

Poachers kill elephants for their valuable tusks — a single pound of ivory can sell for $1,500, and tusks can weigh 250 pounds.

Thai Customs recently evaluated smuggled ivory as being worth $1,800 per kilogram—$18,000 per elephant—wholesale. The “street value” retail price of 10 kilograms of carved ivory now runs about $60,000.

Is it illegal to sell ivory tusks in the US?

Buying and selling estate elephant tusks and most ivory carvings has been made illegal in the US by a regulation that took effect July 6, 2016. Stemming from an Obama executive order, this new revision of regulation 50CFR 17.40e makes the sale of most ivory items illegal in the US.

Where can I buy a walrus ivory tusk?

If for example you got a tusk at a garage sale or auction 10 years ago and don’t know anything about the history we are not interested in buying it because you do not know if it is pre 1972 ivory. If you have walrus or narwhal ivory that you know is pre 1972 call or email us at CONTACT.

What kind of ivory can you sell in Canada?

Canadian walrus and narwhal ivory is available for sale as whole tusks or pieces of varying sizes and shapes.

Where can I sell an elephant tusk for money?

However, the vast majority of ivory offered for sale in the United States appears to be sold without any documentation, legitimate or forged. The main U.S. elephant tusk buyer is a private museum in the Mid-west. This museum operates a web site and also offers items regularly on eBay.

How much money can you make from ivory tusks?

But each year the U.S. government allows the legal importof thousands of elephant ivory objects, mostly in the form of carvings, but also as jewelry, unworked pieces, piano keys, hunting trophies, and individual tusks. Legally imported ivory was valued at an average of $164.8 million per year between 1997-2001.

Is it illegal to buy or sell elephant tusks?

It’s illegal to buy or sell elephant tusks or ivory in general. You can already own or inherit Ivory but you can not buy or sell it, legally that is. But if you really want a piece of the tusk you should check the deep web.

What kind of tusks are used to make ivory?

Ivory carvings, fashioned for thousands of years from the tusks of mammoths, elephants, rhinos and other animals, still captivate collectors even after recent controversy about the import of African elephant tusks. Artistic ivory carvings, from Buddha figurines to elaborate carved slabs…