It's really old stuff,,,
According to Wikipedia they went extinct 10 to 11 thousand years ago.
Back in the mid 60's,,,
My Pop found a mammoth skeleton in NW Oklahoma.
He was looking for old dump sites to excavate,,,
And found some bones in a recent washed out gully.
He called someone at Oklahoma University,,,
I remember being amazed when they weren't excited at all.
Apparently that's not a rare find in that part of the state.
Anyways, we went back and dug up as much as we could find,,,
It was no means intact but we found about 3 feet of tusk.
I tried making some knife handles from a piece of tusk,,,
But it was too far gone to be of any decent worth,,,
The pieces crumbled under the slightest stress.
So I suppose it all depends on the condition of the ivory,,,
I have seen examples for sale over the years,,,
So someone has had more success than I.
Type,
mammoth tusk pistol grips, into a Google search,,,
It came up with hundreds of images like this one.
In fact the company in the image exists,,,
And has a nice website.
Aarond
.