Ivory ban reaction
MADAM – Defra’s findings outlined in the post-consultation document include an extraordinarily impractical provision for the ‘de minimis’ exemption – requiring registration (with an as yet unspecified fee) of all objects with an ivory content below 10% created before 1947.
Consider the wide range of items this involves, from EPNS teapots, chests of drawers, miniatures, scientific instruments, Art Deco figures… The list goes on.