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Ivory regulation
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ATG letter: Policing will save ivory, not an antique trade ban
24 June 2024Oh dear, here we go again (‘Crackdown on marine ivory trade: date revealed’, ATG No 2649).
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Defra to crack down on marine ivory trade
17 June 2024The trade in most antique scrimshaw and narwhal tusks will effectively be banned in the UK in just over two months
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CITES saga: a client stuck in a Kafkaesque world
02 January 2024A lawyer writes: Case study of an ivory import shows how frustrating the system can become
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Ivory seal deemed to be of ‘outstanding’ value comes to Cirencester auction
02 October 2023The sale at Moore Allen & Innocent on October 11-12 includes a series of personal items relating to William Duke of Clarence, later William IV (1765-1837).
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Liner launcher mallet exempted from ivory trade ban
14 August 2023The ivory-made launching mallet and silver casket from the ill-fated RMS Empress of Ireland came for sale at McTear’s (24% buyer’s premium) in Glasgow.
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Ivory laws hit Deco prices
17 July 2023It’s no surprise that prices of Art Deco bronze and ivory figures have fallen sharply since US and UK laws on the sale of elephant ivory were tightened.
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No fanfare as ivory netsuke sets a new record
10 July 2023A new auction record for netsuke – over three times the previous high – has been set in France.
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ATG letter: Ivory Act – government should listen to the true experts
12 June 2023I despair of this government. After banning antique ivory sales we now will see the disappearance of what I consider works of art from sailors long ago passing the time by carving on animal tusks (ATG No 2595).
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ATG Letter: Government should reconsider ill-thought-out ivory rules
29 May 2023This week we have heard that the government plans to ‘extend the Ivory ban’. It has been reported in the press, on the radio and on television.
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Art and antiques trade dismay as the Ivory Act is extended
28 May 2023The trade in antique scrimshaw and narwhal tusks will effectively be banned in the UK once a proposed extension to the Ivory Act becomes law.
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Government set to extend ivory ban to five other species
23 May 2023The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) announced the trade in ivory from hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal, killer whale and sperm whale will be protected under an extension to the Ivory Act in the UK.
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First auction house donations arrive at the ARC
24 April 2023The Antiques Rescue Centre (ARC) received its first donations from an auction house and has catalogued them for its records.
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Revealed: Ivory Act exemptions so far
27 March 2023Following a Freedom of Information Request by Antiques Trade Gazette, the agency charged with administering The Ivory Act has issued some data on the controversial law.
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ATG letter: Broken and stripped antiques are the result of the flawed Ivory Act
06 March 2023When the 2018 Ivory Act was being debated key campaigners (Born Free, many MPs including Angela Rayner and numerous celebrity supporters -notably Stephen Fry and Deborah Meaden) argued that the Act would IN NO WAY cause the destruction of antiques.
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ATG letter: That £20 cost is down to the new Ivory Act charges
28 November 2022I have just entered an early 19th century portrait miniature painted on ivory into my local auction and have been informed that, in order to enter it, I have to pay a £20 fee for it to be accepted for sale.
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ATG letter: Would that beautiful chess set be classed as museum quality?
18 July 2022Referring to the UK’s near-total ban on selling antique ivory objects, would the beautiful Vizagatapam, India, c.1830-50, ivory chess set in the collection of Mr Holger Langer (Collector Interview, ATG No 2550) be classed as museum quality?
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Furniture suite could be first ‘museum quality’ ivory sale
11 July 2022A suite of solid ivory and gilt furniture sold by Christie’s on July 7 appears to be the first auction lot to benefit from the exemption to the Ivory Act allowing the sale of items of ‘outstandingly high artistic, cultural and historical value’.
ATG LETTER: My 9% ivory could be another’s 11%
13 June 2022As a dealer with a number of antique ivory works of art for sale, I am now having to involve myself in conforming to the new legislation.
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Near-total ban on antique ivory comes into force
06 June 2022The Ivory Act is now in force in the UK, bringing in a near-total ban on the sale of antique ivory.
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Ivory Act goes live on June 6
30 May 2022The Ivory Act, a near-total ban on the sale of antique ivory, comes into force in the UK on June 6.
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