Canadian Adult Pair of Mammoth Tusks

[Sindelar1938]

These are exquisite and unique!
Good luk finding a bona fide buyer on here...

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[vleroybrown]

I like these!

[the joint]

I'm not at all knowledgeable about the prices of these things, but I'd appreciate if you can explain how the value of something like this is determined.  Near my area, there was an entire mammoth skeleton found by one of the local residents, and the selling price for the *entire* skeleton was $6,000.  I'm not sure of the details surrounding the sale, but perhaps you could enlighten me a bit

[canadabtc]

http://www.paleodirect.com/pgset3/mtx001.htm

Maybe you would like these for $485,000.00?
Sounds like they are a deal. Someone will buy them and donate them to a museum for everyone to enjoy.

[Mammoth]

Hello the joint,
I have not heard of this event you speak of. Selling a complete skeleton for $6000.00 to a museum makes me think that the museum was probably compensating this man’s expenses in either digging out the skeleton or downtime of his project in return for donating the skeleton. This is only speculation on my part but as you’ve stated yourself you are “not sure of the details surrounding the sale”.

[Mammoth]

Thanks canadabtc for that link

[the joint]

Hello the joint,
I have not heard of this event you speak of. Selling a complete skeleton for $6000.00 to a museum makes me think that the museum was probably compensating this man’s expenses in either digging out the skeleton or downtime of his project in return for donating the skeleton. This is only speculation on my part but as you’ve stated yourself you are “not sure of the details surrounding the sale”.

That very well could be the case, and you're right, I'm not sure about the details of the sale.  I would expect that a full skeleton would be worth far more than $6,000, and I do vaguely remember being confused when I had originally heard the selling price.  It's possible it was simply a finder's fee for uncovering some part of the skeleton (e.g. a tooth or tusk) which then led to the discovery of the rest of the skeleton.

[Mammoth]

No worries the joint.
It's all good
Cheers

[the joint]

No worries the joint.
It's all good
Cheers

Free bump for one of the coolest listings I've seen.

[kibblesnbits]

Too rich for my blood, but these are hands down the coolest thing I've seen for Bitcoin sale.  Best of luck - I wish I could go up to the Great White North and dig around for these.

[Mammoth]

Hello kibblenbits,
Thanks for the good wishes.
It would be hard to go and just dig for these. There's permafrost, hard as concrete, a few inches below the surface. In the winter the old timers used steam to melt the permafrost so they could dig. Nowadays work is usually just done in the summer with heavy machinery but then you have to deal with monstrous black flies that did drive some men mad.
Nothing's easy,eh?
Cheers

[pr9me]

You really can now buy ANYTHING with Bitcoin...

[mnightwaffle]

my 7"h x 4"w tusk went for $30
imo anything that lasts 35k years and looks even half that good should fetch some decent $$... 8.5k seems very fair. If I bought it I'd get it a pillow and sleep with it every night, , ,
srs




That skull though,
very nice

[Mammoth]

Hello mnightwaffle,
Back in the day pre 1980's the price was very low because there was no interest.
Independent gold miners were leery about selling any "bone" finds that they may have found on their claim worrying that they'll get shut down for an archeological dig. The head of the Paleontological dept at the Museum of Man, now known as the Museum of Civilization, visited all the gold miners letting them know that he wasn't interested in shutting them down but requested that he be granted first refusal on any of the "bones" that they may have found. Items not selected by him were allowed to be disposed of in anyway that the miners wanted - cash, gold dust, barter, etc. Smart move on his part because now he had hundreds of eyes keeping a look out for him.
As a pillow, I don't think that it'd be fluffy enough for me but I can imagine the dreams that one might get.
Cheers

[roslinpl]

WOW! Amazing items! Indeed amazing - little to expensive for my wallet, but ...
AMAZING!

[Mammoth]

Hello roslinpl,
Thanks for the "WOW".
The tusks still never cease to amaze me even though I see them every day,
Cheers

[roslinpl]

Hello roslinpl,
Thanks for the "WOW".
The tusks still never cease to amaze me even though I see them every day,
Cheers

Indeed it is amazing.
When you imagine how old those are and who was their 1st owner ... you cannot be not amazed and ceased

[legendster]

Thanks rohnearner.
They are awesome and they are legal and conscience free anywhere in the world.
I've spent my whole artistic career since working with mammoth ivory in educating the public about these magnificent creatures and have been included in the mid-late 1980's into Canada's Who's Who for my efforts.
I've been crusading the use of mammoth ivory so as to help in the preservation of our modern day elephants.
TV interviews are here: richardmarcus.ca
Cheers

You'll be put out of business as soon as the real mammoth is resurrected !!

[haploid23]

^ You resurrected the thread just to say that?

Still cool that there's a niche for these kinds of items, with BTC as payment.

[Mammoth]

"^ You resurrected the thread just to say that?"

Actually he is kind of right. The Japanese apperently managed to get some DNA from a Russian wooly mammoth in order to clone.
Personally I don't understand why but a newspaper cartoon showed 2 gentlemen discussing this and the last panel of the 'toon showed a mounted mammoth head on the wall behind him. That about says it all don't it?