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Show DEMAND FOR HIPPO ' TEETH Buyers Flock to Antwerp Four Time a Year to Attend Auction Where They Are Sold. T,he chief ivory market of the worH is in Antvferp, where buyers from everywhere assemble four times a year to attend an auction of this material. Most of it consists of the tusks of African elephants, but considerable quantities of hippopotamus teeth also-figure also-figure In the sales. The latter, at an auction a few weeks ago, brought prices all the way from thlrty-flve-cents to $5 a pound, according to quality. quali-ty. A ceStury ago hippopotamus lvory-was lvory-was much more valuable than it Is today, to-day, because It was the preferred material ma-terial for artificial human teeth, being: very dense and hard. George Washington Wash-ington had a set of teeth made of It. But nowadays much better ones are-manufactured are-manufactured of porcelain by the million. mil-lion. At the recent auction above men-tloned men-tloned rhinoceros floras brought $13 pound. They are ingeniously carved, mostly for curios. The horn of the rhinoceros, by tbe way, is one of the oddities of nature, being composed of closely compacted hair. |