MADAM – I am increasingly concerned with the well-intentioned, but seriously misguided calls for a total ban on ivory objects.
I collect, among other things, 18th century ivory, as well as tortoiseshell snuff boxes.
My favourite wood is rosewood, and I am hearing similar rumblings about that now. I am beginning to feel, to quote the late Dorothy Parker, that everything I like is illegal, immoral or fattening.