largest ele ivory

23 November 2005, 13:03

retreever

largest ele ivory

Well I am in an internet cafe posting this...
Went to the Natural History Museum in London England...Visiting my son working here for 6 months to 2 years...
The ivory was shot by an Arab who hunted him for a week...91 kilos and 84 kilos and one was just over 3 meters long and the other just under..
Will post after getting home and off to Holland & Holland after this...

Got a pic of the Texas Embassy...this is for you Texans that did not know..

Mike

23 November 2005, 17:41

nainital

Michael: the largest known pair of tusks was shot circa 1897 near the Kilimanjaro. All facts point to 237 1/2 and 226 1/2 pounds at that time, which is considerably more than your quoting. Peter Capstick wrote a very interesting piece on this magnificent pair, perhaps shot by a slave of the Chagga tribe. SÃ¡nchez AriÃ±o also wrote about this.
Regards

23 November 2005, 18:16

Will

Ditto.

I don't think they would have dried out that much. Maybe the English are having problems converting to metric!

But I'd take 200-pounders.

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23 November 2005, 19:32

Michael Robinson

The tusks in question, that is, the ones retreever mentions and the ones nainital and Will mention, are the same tusks.

They are the largest ever recorded, from an elephant shot by a Arab ivory-trader's slave near Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanganyika in 1898.

For some reason, the weights of the tusks posted in the British Museum of Natural History in South Kensington are different from those reported from other sources.

23 November 2005, 20:25

500grains

quote:
Originally posted by mrlexma:
For some reason, the weights of the tusks posted in the British Museum of Natural History in South Kensington are different from those reported from other sources.

That is because Thomas Crown switched them with some plastic replicas.

23 November 2005, 20:43

Mickey1

quote:
Originally posted by retreever:
Well I am in an internet cafe posting this...
Went to the Natural History Museum in London England...Visiting my son working here for 6 months to 2 years...
The ivory was shot by an Arab who hunted him for a week...91 kilos and 84 kilos and one was just over 3 meters long and the other just under..
Will post after getting home and off to Holland & Holland after this...

Got a pic of the Texas Embassy...this is for you Texans that did not know..

Mike

I was there around '85 and got to see the tusks by BSing my way into the basement where they were stored.

We were not left alone with the tusks and were not allowed to take any pictures. It seems that shortly before someone had been let in to view them and, while the curator was busy elswhere, his 'girlfriend' had stripped and they had taken a few nude shots of her on top of the tusks.

The staid curator was not amused, probably didn't get any copies of the picture.

23 November 2005, 21:30

NitroX

quote:
Originally posted by Mickey1:
We were not left alone with the tusks and were not allowed to take any pictures. It seems that shortly before someone had been let in to view them and, while the curator was busy elswhere, his 'girlfriend' had stripped and they had taken a few nude shots of her on top of the tusks.

The staid curator was not amused, probably didn't get any copies of the picture.

Maybe it was how she was on top of the tusks in the nude!