Port & River — 1900-1935
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Elephant Tusk from the Cutler Street warehouse. Ivory was imported through the London Dock and sold there on the 'Ivory floor'. In 1930 it was calculated that the tusks of 2,800 elephants were sold in this saleroom every year.
tusk, elephant's ivory tusk
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