Interesting that the link Joyce posts has a picture captioned
"Red, pink and bamboo coral jewelry on display in a store front" but the article does not define or explain "bamboo" coral.
As far as I can tell the fast growing tan/beige bamboo coral is not listed in CITES.
Only stony corals and black coral are listed in CITES on Appendix II.
I'm embarrassed to say I was recently banned for a week for selling ivory on eBay. I thought it was o.k. because the piece was an obviously antique brooch (and I called it antique) that was a carved ivory figure of a Japanese woman in flowing robes. It was certainly late 19th century. It was taken down because it was over 5% ivory. eBay will not allow you to sell anything that is ivory of any kind or age, and if you are dealing with bone you have to specify the species. Even then, they actually have people scanning 'ox bone' listings to weed it out. They are enforcing a 100% no tolerance policy. You will get a warning or two, but third strike you're out! So no more 'faux ivory', it's not going to fly! Just wanted to throw that out there.
search within the last week and found at least three pieces that were with out a doubt Ivory, so if they are still allowing faux ivory as a listing you will find the random piece. I do not collect ivory just wanted to see if it could be found.
All my best ...... Danny
