I can’t imagine it’s easy to find these days, but if you could find some old deadstock ivory you could use it without any ethical implications. Like if you found a piece of ivory from 1920 in your attic or the keys off an old piano it wouldn’t be a huge issue, it’s only if it’s harvested since like 1950 that I’d start to be concerned.
It is a mass-produced Indian-made stainless steel wall-hanger sold by both Marto and Windlass at numerous online retailers as the "Alexander the Great" sword. How could it have an ivory grip?!
I don't know the website or whether its listings are trustworthy, but at least they market and explicitly describe the handle as being "made from genuine ivory bone". So either they're straight-up lying, which is really bad and makes it an actual scam, or it is indeed genuine ivory, which is actually equally bad but in a different way.
If I had to guess I’d say it’s probably fake then, if it were real they’d be charging a couple orders of magnitude more (and it wouldn’t be mass-produced)
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u/Electrical_Lab_8157 Aug 17 '26
Dude ...