MADAM – We find the British Museum’s double-faced agreement to accept the Sassoon ivories, while telling all other ivory collectors to stuff their holdings in the interest of saving elephants, typical of the lost moral compass among politicians and public institutions.
Dr Fischer called the Sassoon ivories of “the greatest significance”.
The British Museum needs no lessons from the Ivory Education Institute on how all major museums obtain the bulk of their holdings. It is from the passion, pursuit and investments of collectors who assemble the objects museums come to covet.