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| >>Mammoth
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Mammoth ivory comes from the
wooly mammoth which has been extinct for over
10,000-25,000 years and is being dug up in Siberia,
Estonia, Alaska, et.. Of Couse there is a very limited
supply and when they can't find any more your investment
in this netsuke will go up. These are the antiques of
tommorrow. Mammoth ivory has been used for netsuke and
okimonos since the bann on elephant ivory in June 1989.
Mammoth ivory has the beautiful cross hatching that
elephant ivory has you need to measure the circles in
order to tell one form the other. You can see the cross
hatching and circles-like a tree in many of our
photos-particularly on bottoms of netsuke. |
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| >> The Art of Netsuke |
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Netsuke is actually
two words..."ne" and "tsuke", which when translated to English means "root for
fastening". In fact, originally it may have been a root that the first Netsuke
was made from. Necessity is the mother of invention...
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