Saleroom stops rhino horn sales
Edinburgh auction house Lyon & Turnbull will no longer sell antique items made from rhino horn. It joins Sotheby’s and Bonhams in recently banning the sale of these items. Christie’s stopped selling rhino-horn related objects more than six years ago.
While it is still possible to trade in worked rhino horn acquired or prepared prior to 1947, L& T referred to the campaign by BADA (The British Antique Dealers Association) for tougher regulation to “ensure that modern poached rhino is prevented from entering the UK and that rhino horn already in the UK cannot be ground down and exported for whatever reason”.