a nice set here. Only $250.
Posted on 08/19/2010 11:31:21 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Woolly mammoth ivory jewelry is everywhere.
Luxury retailer Stanley Korshak in Dallas can't keep it in stock. Michelle Obama has been photographed numerous times wearing it. For CFDA design darling Monique Péan and Ivory Jacks in Bothel, Washington, that create jewelry out of the material, business has been good.
The First Lady wore woolly mammoth jewelry by Monique Péan on a trip to Mexico a few months ago (pictured above and below)-specifically earrings, cuffs and strands. She wore the cuffs again recently to greet President Obama on his 49th birthday. The cuffs go for $4,480 to $7,420 at www.twistonline.com. The earrings can fetch anywhere between $915 and $2,970 at www.barneys.com.
Unlike elephant ivory which is primarily off-white, woolly mammoth ivory is unique in that it has many different colors-tan, brown and sometimes blue. Ivory Jacks jewelry designer Courtney Tripp explained to me this week at the Gift Show in New York that the colors are a result of thousands of years of mineralization. No two tusks are the same color. So no two mammoth jewelry pieces can be exactly the same.
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Hopefully her tenure as farce lady will follow the SAME path as the Mammoth.
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“Next thing you know, they will be fashioning jewelry for the Uber-Rich from irreplaceable Dinosaur Fossils.”
Tha has been happening for at least a hald century that I know of. Check ‘dinosaur bone’ in Lapidary Journal or any other source of stone rough for lapidary use.
Google works, also.
The stuff is so common that the price is rather low.
Awww, Ramius, You an Michelle have something in common!
Eyew. Not my taste at all!
Thanks for the info though.
Nobody is killing mammoths for their ivory.
That is the reason for the ban on elephant ivory.
Hmmmm, I wonder if it would make good grips for a 1911A1?...
Well, she is royalty, for Pete’s sake. What’s the problem?
It isn’t all that rare and sold in many stores in Alaska as well.
But this encourages bad behavior in regards to ivory IN GENERAL.
That is the point.
It’s not about the killing, they’re already dead Jim...so there is no source of new mammoth ivory making it a valuable paleontological asset that could disappear and so should be preserved; not cut up to hang from the ears of the modern day Marie Antoinette.
a nice set here. Only $250.
You bad.
No it doesn’t. As the article states, it doesn’t look the same as regular ivory. All I have was always brown or gray in color.
Selling fossil’s does not create a demand for killing animals.
Not to mention every second one is riden by a gnome trying to compensate for something.
Do you day the same about golf and silver?
This isn’t rare. That is why you can buy jewelry made from it for less than $50.
So? We burn fossil fuel every day to produce electricity. It is called coal.
Most of northern Russia and part of Alaska have large amounts of fossil ivory. You might call it the original Elephant graveyard.
so she has on at least 8 grand worth of cuffs, a grand in earrings, who knows how much that necklace is..and then there is a smaller bracelet and one that looks like it might be beads .
So who is paying for it?
She did say the Bush tax rebate wouldn’t even buy a pair of earrings.
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