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If exotic handle materials are your forte, the QSP Mustang won’t disappoint. Crafted with a head-turning handle with Raffir stabilized wood on the main scales and mammoth molar inlays on the bolster, this is one knife that stands out in any collection Read More
Yeah, the description is what worries me, especially if they put mammoth anywhere in the description in the box. "Mammoth pattern composite" is the only way it's getting through most customs checks these days, so the description here worries the hell out of me. Some customs agencies define anything that's not a lockback or fixed blade a "gravity assisted knife", even if the mechanism is completely different. So putting "Mammoth molar" in the description makes me pensive.
It's like marketing people don't live in the same solar system as the rest of us.
I recieved a mammoth molar in the mail but it didn't appear to cross any borders. I bought it from a licensed dealer along with some other pieces for a project. They'd even ship me a partial or complete tusk from Siberia if I was a walking pile of cash! They're wholesalers to just about anyone who needs or wants these materials. I assumed that they have a license to do what they do. I know that museums do get significant finds directly before these guys get a crack at them. I hope that's useful somehow but doesn't address crossing borders with a finished product. In fossils, bone and tooth material is completely mineralized. All you could say is that its outer surface is somewhat ivory-like. Documentation is solid.
I used fossilrealm.com back then. I just checked and they're advertising a full size ceratopsian skeleton (think triceratops) for sale. (Sorry, that strikes me as wrong but makes teeth and tusks seem pretty common...)