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"ball ivory," which brought as much or even a little more 

 than at the earlier sales. The regular October sales were 

 indefinitely postponed, but many private transactions 

 have taken place. In these, hard ivory has maintained 

 its price, but the less valuable qualities, such for instance 

 as the grades known in the trade as "soft scrivelloes" and 

 "cut hollows," have found little demand. It is noteworthy, 

 however, that in general the dealings in ivory have been 

 less seriously interfered with than those in most other 

 articles of luxury. The supplies of Egyptian and West 

 Coast African ivory have been larger in 1914 than in 1913. 

 But few walrus tusks have been received, the demand 

 being slack and the prices lower; a limited quantity of 

 boars' tusks was disposed of at unchanged prices. The 

 stock of ivory on hand in London at the close of 1914 was 

 188 tons, against 105 tons at the end of 1913, this notable 

 increase being due to the transfer from Antwerp of a large 

 quantity of Congo ivory.* 



IMPORTS OF IVORY INTO GREAT BRITAIN, 1912, 1913 





1912 CWT8. 



1913 cwTS. 



1912 VALUE 



1913 VALUE 



Ivory, Animal 











Germany 



756 



487 



£ 27,131 



£ 15,833 



German West Africa 



139 



87 



1,769 



4,183 



Netherlands . 



13 



3 



659 



152 



Belgium .... 



3,428 



3,314 



200,022 



196,128 



France .... 



203 



279 



8,978 



11,972 



French West Africa 



158 



138 



7,322 



6,407 



Portuguese East Africa 



213 



159 



9,111 



6,969 



Egypt 



2,452 



2,456 



120,301 



124,481 



Tripoli .... 





3 





125 



Congo Free State 



103 



263 



5,265 



13,349 



U. S. of America 



978 



1,032 



5,361 



5,964 



Other foreign countries 



311 



200 



12,184 



8,938 



Total from foreign 



countries . . . 8,754 8,421 £398,103 £394,501 



*Messrs. Hale & Sons' Annual Ivory Report for 1914. 



