"My present was a beautiful ivory pen tipped with silver & wreathed with laurel, a most elegant compliment.
He watches his mother get shot in the mouth, and poachers take a saw to the bridge of an old tusker's trunk, tipping the ivory "from the root, easy as a fruit".
Summer courses are just the tip of the ivory tower at Monmouth, however.
This is only the tip of the iceberg, this ivory is likely to be scraps; the majority is shipped to Asia from Pemba's internationally connected port.
This is just the tip of the iceberg as ivory sold legally in the UK domestic market is exported to illegal markets in other countries, contributing to high prices and fuelling demand for elephant products.
A recent survey found almost all of a former settlement of the Thule culture, ancestors of today's Inuit, had been disturbed and stripped of items such as harpoon tips and figurines carved from walrus ivory.
The small end of the cue, with which the ball is struck, is fitted with a plastic, fibre, or ivory reinforcement to which is cemented a leather cue tip.
An undercover video released last week by the Humane Society (see below) appears to show Hawaii jewelers giving tips to customers on how to transport ivory without the required permits.
Chinese online forums offer a thriving, and essentially unregulated, market for ivory chopsticks, bookmarks, rings, cups and combs, along with helpful tips on how to smuggle them (wrap the ivory in tinfoil, says one Web site, to throw off X-ray machines).
