Problems Selling Old or New Ivory: More Ivory Problems
June 11, 2014
I always wonder how a story about a great find or a great loss turns out, so we keep watching events from previous Kovels Komments news stories.
The Budapest Festival Orchestra came to New York City to perform at Lincoln Center but the ivory law caused problems. (See Kovels Komments, April 23 and May 28, 2014.) The bows for violins belonging to the musicians have ivory parts and so, in accordance with the new law, they were confiscated.
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