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Keyless chanter, real ivory…
$3,000 starting bid
Too bad there is only one picture.
i only have one picture, iam in the usa and the pipes are in manchester uk,i should have took more pics. probably cause i took to many pictures of my new turbo booster.
i had a picture of rooney playing them,i should of stuck that on ebay? for the crack
How old is it?
there about 25 years old ive had them for 15,dont really want to sell but recording a cd and need the candy?
My question (if I were purchasing the set and lived in the US) would be: do you have a CITES certificate for the Ivory, or is it mammoth Ivory.
Importing Ivory into the US is a chancy thing at best without the proper documentation.
Dionys
i think there elephant ivory or whatever they used in the late 70s, you could say there plastic maybe no one would notice?
If nobody states that it’s ivory, nobody will think it is.
PD.
good thinking doctor darcy? 
I don’t know of a single set of Irish pipes ever being held up over ivory - either hand carried or shipped.
Exactly! This CITES stuff kind of gets up my @R$E
PD.
Don’t chance it. I lost a bagpipe practice chanter from around 1920 because some inspector caught it in the mail, during a random inspection. At the time I was ignorant of the fact that it doesn’t matter if the ivory was harvested prior to the 70’s, if you don’t have a CITES cert. After the fact, I was able to provide credible testimony (from an ex-fish and wildlife enforcement officer and pipemajor), that there was no way this could have been produced after the 60’s. They didn’t care; saying I should have known better. I spoke with the supervisor in charge of the inspectors, who was very apologetic over holding such an obviously old and small item. However, the reply I recieved to my appeal letter (written by the legal staff of the department) made me out a some kind of devious smuggler and felon. All in all, I saw the whole incident as a tragedy of personal (mine) and bureaucratic (their) ignorance. It’s painful to think about.
That sounds like a GHB chanter you’re talking about paritus… they don’t count 
PD.
Tilt the hat and put me in the corner…I forgot where I was. The U-pipers know we GHBers really are criminals…
I’ll second that, don’t chance it. I know of one huy who got caught out shipping a set of 19th century ivory mounted MacDougalls (think Coyne) from Canada to the US. They got caught, and for a while it looked like many thousands of dollars worth of bagpipe was going to die. In the end, he managed to get them to agree to just have the ivory removed, and the pipes saved. Moral: get a certificate. There is lots and lots of discussion on this on Bob Dunsire’s site, or on the RMMB archives at Google. Destroying good sets of pipes for reasons of laziness is not clever.
Cheers,
Calum
well if anyone buys them i will ship them over myself and they can pick them up in new jersey?
Once they’re in Jersey, you can ship them anywhere within the US without worrying about customs checking them out or having issues with the Ivory.
What’s the reserve on the set?
Dionys
yes i could do that,would save all the hasel i got them valued at 3 500. they should sel there alot of people interested.