Posted 3 years ago
Mickyorkuk
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Found these tiny playing cards during a property clearance.
Any ideas? Are they ivory and can o even own them legally?
Regards
Mick
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Well Mick, first of all they're *dominos*, not playing cards. They do look to be rather small (as such things go) and it is interesting that the 'dots' on them don't all seem to be uniformly sized. (as would usually be the case) As to what they're made of, the color would be correct for ivory, but its also rather impossible to make any determination from the pics you've shown -- if you can add another close-up of just one or two of the tiles, it might be easier to at least guess their material. Even if they are genuine ivory I'd doubt it would be "illegal" to own them, common sense would dictate that they're obviously not new enough to have been made from "poached" tusks, which is what all the current day ivory prohibitions are (supposed to be) about, but such laws and restrictions could very well be different in the UK than here in the USA, in any case exemptions *should* be in place to protect such pre-existing items.