Man and beast in eastern Ethiopia : from observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan (1911)
Bland-Sutton, John, Sir, 1855-1936, Bland-Sutton, John, Sir, 1855-1936, inscriber. DSI, Nebb, C.H.S., former owner. DSI, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 419
IVORY 403 XXXI In Great Britain the best ivory is used for making billiard balls, but the largest tusks are bought for the American market. Fifty per cent, of ivory imported into America is used for piano keys and in India for making bangles. The best tusks fetch in the open market £68-£70 per… … Iron ball . projecting into the pulp chamber of an elephant’s tnsk. (Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, England.) ivory sale teaches that even chips are too valuable to waste, for when calcined in a close vessel they furnish charcoal ; this, known as ivory black, forms a pigment for oil and…
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