Executive producer Marsha Bemko shares her tips for getting the most out of ANTIQUES ROADSHOW. Value can change: The value of an item is dependent upon many things, including the condition of the object itself, trends in the market for that kind of object including tusks and carvings, that had been seized from smugglers or confiscated from unwitting tourists. And in February, the Obama administration announced it would change regulations to ban interstate sales of all ivory except certified antiques in which case its sale is allowed under a so-called "antiques exemption." According to figures recently sourced from government agencies by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), more than 7,500 ivory carvings and 1,746 elephant trophies (with from statues to carvings to jewelry to pianos, made of or containing ivory. In February, President Obama signed a “national strategy” prohibiting all commercial imports of African elephant ivory into the U.S. in an effort to cut down on the massive In a nondescript shopping mall in Beijing sellers offering antiques and artworks are crammed together. The shops are piled high with stone carvings, jade and ivory. Some have whole elephant tusks on display, others ivory figures, statues and intricately However, in amongst all the jumble, you can find Wedgewood china, antique coins, ivory figurines and bronze statues. Like all antique markets, there is always the potential of being conned. Modern pieces can be distressed to appear antique and in some .
The goal of the ivory ban, the White House said in a release While most people think of ivory carvings or jewelry, at Rago he may be inspecting a $10,000 antique silver tea set with ivory ferrules, a piano with ivory keys, a $100,000 bronze sculpture At the Chengtian antiques market in Beijing, eight stalls sold unregistered ivory carvings. Fingering a cream-colored Buddha pendant he was selling for about $800, the vendor explained how to hide it from the authorities. “Just wear it around your neck and whether it is antique or not, trade in ivory aged before 1989 is legal. But it is easy to find ivory carvings dated after 1989 online, particularly Chinese carvings, and trade in them is not legal. Not all ivory sold on the Internet is elephant ivory. Yet, debate continues as to how best to deal with the worsening crisis: continue to open up a tightly-managed legal trade or outlaw ivory altogether? Ivory carvings that were coming from legal stockpiles or as antiques," Bennett writes. .
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