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Here is the article:The reason that I am sending you an email today is because I'm interested in showing my uncle's private collection of engraving artwork. My uncle who love collecting miniature engraving artwork. He does not do any of the engraving himself, but he likes to collect them. His collections include engraving on sesame weed, ivory (or some people may call it elephant tusk), and tiger’s whiskers. I would like to let you know that this kind of artwork is different from most of the artwork because the artist used the needle to engrave the context to the extremely small piece of ivory, but the Chinese character or the pictures of well-known historic people such as every US president from G. Washington to G. Bush engraved to those things that I mentioned above. I was told that these priceless masterpieces which he collects are the rarest of the rare.To his belief, there are no more than two pieces in this world hich are made similar to what he is currently own.Because uncle is interested in showing his collection to the public, especially in the US, Australia, and the Europe, but he does not know the process so he asks me for my help. Since I know completely nothing about this, I would appreciate any suggestion that may come from any of you. His primary concern is that his materpiece collection are priceless and he is concerned that bringing these items to overseas would proved to be risky because there may be shady people out there who may claim these items are not his nor legal to own. What he need is some kind of protection for a peace of mind. More importantly, many of these artworks were done on elephant ivories. I fully aware that it is banned to trade these items worldwide, but I also would like to let you know that these are the leftover of the complete size of elephant ivory. What this means is that the size of each piece of these ivories are similar to one sesame seed. There are approximately 100 pieces of these artworks. Therefore, even if we put all of them together side by side, it would still be smaller than your index finger. Because of the size, will this be an exception to bringing these artworks to the country such as France?

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The reason that I am sending you an email today is because I'm interested in showing my uncle's private collection of engraving artwork. My uncle who loves collecting miniature engravings artwork. He does not do any of the engraving himself, but he likes to collect it them. His collections includes engraving on sesame weed(do you mean seeds?), ivory (or some people may call it elephant tusk), and tiger’s whiskers. I would like to let you know that this kind of artwork is unusual different from most of the artwork because the artist used a very fine engraving the needle to engrave the context to the extremely small pieces of ivory., but the Chinese characters or the pictures of well-known historic people such as every US president from G. Washington to G. Bush are engraved on to those things that I mentioned above. I was told that these priceless masterpieces which he collects are the rarest of the rare.

To his belief, He believes that there are no more than two pieces in this world hich are made similar to what he is currently own. has in his collection. Because My uncle is interested in showing his collection to the public, especially in the US, Australia, and the Europe, but he does not know the process so he asked me for my help. Since I know absolutely completely nothing about this, I would appreciate any of your suggestions that may come from any of you. His primary concern is that the pieces in his materpiece collection are priceless and he is concerned about the risks in that bringing these items to overseas. would proved to be risky because there may be shady people out there who may claim these items are not his nor legal to own. What he need is some kind of protection for a peace of mind.

More importantly, many of these artworks were done on elephant ivories. I fully aware that it is banned to trade these items worldwide, but I also would like to let you know that these are just scraps of the leftover of the complete size of elephant ivory, What this means is that the size of each piece of these ivories being are similar to one sesame seed. There are approximately 100 pieces of these artworks. Therefore, even if we put all of them together side by side, it would still be smaller than your index finger. Because of the size, will this be an exception to bringing these artworks to the country such as France?

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I am a vounteer at an art museum. We have antique ivory carvings in our collection from India. There are special considerations for antique art works. Every country has different forms, but the United Nations law (CITES) covers the international trade for many countries, including France.

Here is some information and the form to fill out to bring artwork made of elephant ivory into the US. There is no indication that size makes any difference at all.

http://www.fws.gov/forms/3-200-23.pdf

http://www.fws.gov/international/pdf/CITESfall01.pdf

http://www.fws.gov/international/DIC/species/afe/pdf/Ivory_Fact_Sheet.pdf

Is this the kind of art in your uncle's collection?

http://www.chinainfoonline.com/Chinese_Arts_Crafts/Microscopic_Carving.htm

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First of all, I'd like to THANK YOU for taking time to response back to my question.

Regarding of the artwork, you are right. They are very similar to what that website has described. You may have already known that my uncle is also interested in showing his collection in the US, but I also know that the process of bring these artwork into the country will be very complicated. The thing is my uncle obtained a lot of these ivory pieces from a very private artist. Therefore, asking this artist a lot of information such as how these ivories were retrieved or how old these crafting ivories are was not possible.

If you want to see pictures of what uncle has in his private collection, please feel free to go to this website:

http://handengravingforum.com/showthread.php?t=7372

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