MADAM – I have been reading the responses in your letters pages from the antiques trade to the stringent ivory laws appearing around the world.
But what news of the equally endangered rhino? I was shocked to see several rhino horn libation cups for sale in recent and future auctions.
While a few of these lots do show some age and ‘artistic’ merit, in the ‘archaistic’ style, others are crude carvings and could easily be of more recent origin.