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Re: ivory scales
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2007 Jan 7, 20:07 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2007 Jan 7, 20:07 -0500
It is sad to think how many elefants they killed for this "substitute of plastic":-( Alex On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, George Huxtable wrote: > Before the days of plastic, > all the keys of a piano (even a cottage > upright) were faced with ivory, and so were > billiard- and snooker > balls. It was imported in large quantities, and there was an enormous > warehouse (Ivory House, at St Katherine's Dock, near the Tower of > London) to handle it. > > George. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---