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Ivory Transport & CITES Agreement
By Ken Vinen

Just one more opinion!  Getting ivory keys over the border is kind
of like the luck of the draw -- perhaps mostly the mood of the customs
officer on duty and just how busy they are.

In the very recent past, there was a posting to the MMD with hard
information about this.  I think it was submitted by Terry Smythe.
The main point was that keys worked before 1949 did not fall victim
to the CITES agreement.

In the past six months I have shipped a Reproduco with perfect ivory,
with John Wrasse, from Ontario, Canada, to California.  I myself
imported a Seeburg "G" from Indiana into Ontario, Canada -- also with
perfect original ivory keys.  This was with a commercial mover.  The
piano was looked at, the taxes paid and not one word about ivory.

I have over the years imported several other pianos with ivory and
never a blinking of the eye.  At one point, I sold my entire "First"
collection of eight or more pianos through Bill Edgerton and the
entire lot got moved over the border, again without an ivory problem.
Perhaps we make ourselves anxious when we choose to worry over one
very exceptional report.

Can't believe I am just lucky.  I buy lottery tickets and never win!

Seasons greetings to all!

Ken Vinen
Aylmer, Ontario, Canada


(Message sent Mon 29 Dec 2008, 16:32:47 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

Key Words in Subject:  Agreement, CITES, Ivory, Transport

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