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Any help on where I can find the current price per pound of ivory? Have a pair of tusks I need to estimate value for - I understand the value would be more based on configuration, quality, etc but these are not mounted/polished and I just need a rough estimate. | ||
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SCI magazine usually has appraisal advertisers. You could most likely contact any of them. LDK Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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a rough estimate can be done whit 50 USD/lbs, if i remember correctly... D.V.M. | |||
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Using that estimate, a matched pair of 50 pound ivories from Zimbabwe would be worth half the cost of a permit. That is suprising. "There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark | |||
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Not sure if this helps or not, but here's part of a story - it comes out to about $74/lb. (click HERE for full story): "Low ivory prices at first legal auction in 9 years Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:56pm EDT By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - The first U.N.-approved auction of elephant ivory in almost a decade gave lower-than-expected prices in Namibia on Tuesday but wildlife experts disagreed over whether that would discourage poachers. The Namibian government sold 7.2 tonnes of stockpiled ivory for $1.2 million, or an average price of $164 a kilo, to Chinese and Japanese bidders in the first of four auctions by southern African countries to be spread over two weeks. Most experts had predicted far higher prices in the rare sale, the first since 1999 when the average price was $110 a kilo in an auction limited to Japanese buyers." . "Listen more than you speak, and you will hear more stupid things than you say." | |||
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to SBT: about any hunting trophy cost less respect the basic trophy fees (or hunt)in the taxidermy market. the only trophy i know that cost about the same before and after the shoot is zebra... D.V.M. | |||
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I don't know much about ivory trading, but I do know that there's a lot of factors involved. I'm told by an ex dealer friend that the commercial sale was for fairly poor quality ivory and the other auctions will be far better quality and probably fetch higher prices. However, I personally reckon you guys are making a mistake by using auction prices as a guide anyway. Those prices were for tusks that came with export licences permitting them to be shipped overseas and used for commercial purposes....... if someone just has some sport hunted tusks they want to dispose of, they need to check out the situation very carefully indeed, because there are so many restrictions on sale. Even if you want to sell them 'in state' it might be a better idea to 'give them away as a gift' and the recipient 'give a gift in return'  Even if you can sell them, my guess is that if you can find someone willing to give you full commercial value, you'll be very lucky indeed. | |||
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thanks for all the info guys - it helps | |||
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