Show DEMAND FOR HIPPO TEETH buyers flock to antwerp four times a year to attend auction where 1 they are sold the chief ivory market of the world ts Is in antwerp where buyers from everywhere as emble four times time a year to attend an a auction atlon of this material I 1 I 1 most of it consists of the tusks of rAf african rican elephants but considerable quantities uan titles of hippopotamus teeth also figure in the sales the latter at an lauc auction tion a few weeks ago brou brought ht prices all the way from thirty five cents to 5 a pound according to quality A century ago hippopotamus ivory was much more valuable than it is to fla day y because it was the preferred material aerial tor for artificial human teeth being ory cry dense and hard george washington ing ton had a set of teeth made of it But nowadays much better ones are of porcelain by the all itoh lepic recent auction above mon men tinned rhinoceros horns brought 13 a pound they are in ingeniously gen carved mostly tor for curios the horn of the rhinoceros by the way is one of the oddities of 0 nature being composed ot of closely compacted hair |