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African animal hides
« on: 29 November, 2017, 09:26:41 am »
In my loft I have had for years some animal hides, incl leopard and snakeskin plus the tip of an elephants tusk.

They were brought back from Africa by my grandfather who was a zoologist, passed on to my father and now I have them.

I have no wish to sell them or dump them.  If anyone knows how they could be used for educational purposes they are freely available.
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Re: African animal hides
« Reply #1 on: 29 November, 2017, 09:38:39 am »
I'd love the Leopard hide, if you don't have a need for it.

Re: African animal hides
« Reply #2 on: 29 November, 2017, 09:53:18 am »
I don't think you can sell the ivory anyway Asterix.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: African animal hides
« Reply #3 on: 29 November, 2017, 10:11:28 am »
.... have to say I smiled at the post subject .....  African animal hides ..... where/why?

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Re: African animal hides
« Reply #4 on: 29 November, 2017, 10:14:26 am »
Zoo or museum I would have thought.

Natural history museum?
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Re: African animal hides
« Reply #5 on: 29 November, 2017, 11:45:10 am »
The biology department at the university might have something to do with them?

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Re: African animal hides
« Reply #6 on: 29 November, 2017, 02:12:17 pm »
We have a similar problem, in a minor key: a leopard-skin handbag brought back from Uganda and a pair of hippo teeth, which are ivory.  There's also a colobus-skin rug somewhere, if it hasn't been thrown out - it was getting a bit tatty. We are simply pretending they're not there.
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Re: African animal hides
« Reply #7 on: 29 November, 2017, 05:58:37 pm »
Presumably you can have the ivory carved into something, even if you can't sell it?  Guitar nuts or bridge pins?
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Re: African animal hides
« Reply #8 on: 29 November, 2017, 08:19:59 pm »
Presumably you can have the ivory carved into something, even if you can't sell it?  Guitar nuts or bridge pins?

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Re: African animal hides
« Reply #9 on: 30 November, 2017, 08:13:22 am »
Presumably you can have the ivory carved into something, even if you can't sell it?  Guitar nuts or bridge pins?

Nah.  I like them better as chunks of hippo.
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Re: African animal hides
« Reply #10 on: 30 November, 2017, 09:37:03 am »
Donate everything to university or zoo as suggested. Anything that does not glorify them.

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Re: African animal hides
« Reply #11 on: 15 December, 2017, 03:58:22 am »
A museum is fine, but be aware that due to CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) you may be asked to show where, when and how they arrived here.

The NH Museum would also be my best suggestion as they use the bits for all sorts of serious research, whereas a local museum might just store them somewhere.
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Re: African animal hides
« Reply #12 on: 15 December, 2017, 08:39:41 am »
Thanks, I will drop the Natural History Museum a line - and even if they don't want them, I imagine they can advise on such things.

They were brought back in 1937 on a Union Castle line ship, this is evidenced by Grandad's old suitcase in which they have been stowed all these years and native art brass pin tray with the date on it he also brought back.  I guess they didn't have CITES or similar back then.
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Re: African animal hides
« Reply #13 on: 16 December, 2017, 03:54:01 pm »
Might be a bit recent for being grandfathered in. The local museum that does biologicals would know.
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