Your Pool Cue Can Be Confiscated....Is it worth the risk?

i dont know what my cue is really worth, who cares??. its a 8pt boar with some ivory (might be fake ivory I dont know-didnt check it), i take it all over the world with me in a 20+ year old Porper case. I have a price tag on a string(old school style) I put on the cue "SALE $99", so if anyone ever asks its a $99 cue on sale. Its just wood and metal. Keep it simple......the case might be worth $20, the Kamui chalk is the most expensive thing I have;)

Who cares what forum a thread is in? is it really that bad out there you got to sweat that???
 
Rudy likes poll said:
i had bought several cues from USA, declaring them at $1,000 ~ 1,500.
never got inspected like this time.
so i've been thinking the value declared on the shipping document is just a reference.
just my own thinking.
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Curious though, don't they tax you in Taiwan?
Mainland China's crazy with the taxes...
Singapore will tax anything above USD300++
 
It used to be that all anyone had to worry about was getting the cue confiscated. But now you also have to worry about getting prosecuted and fined. Many cuemakers and buyers used to take the chance because they knew the only risk was losing the cue. But not anymore. I don't know of any cuemakers who ship Ivory cues out of the USA now.
 
HI Back in the old days in the 1890 they Slaughtered over 1000 elephants to make snooker balls. Then they passed a law that it was against the law to slaughter elephants for the Ivory.

Then someone invented to make snooker balls out of plastic material

Instead of confiscating people that make cues with ivory in them they should instead that customs officials should keep there eyes open for druggs etc
 
Is there any risk of confiscation for cues with white- or cream-colored materials that are not ivory? In other words, do the authorities have the knowledge and means to distinguish between ivory and non-ivory look-alike materials?
 
Apparently So

The cue that was examined by US Fish & Wildlife had LBM Ferrules and that cue successfully passed the examination. In fact, the cue was intentionally ordered that way to avoid problems. I'm not an expert on ivory lookalike ferrule materials and maybe LBM ferrules are easy to spot versus actual ivory.

All of my cues have ivory ferrules, except my Schon which has Micarta ferrules. The ivory ferrules on my cue are easy to spot since you can see the grain in the ferrules and so maybe that's what used to distinguish some types of ivory.
 
AtLarge said:
Is there any risk of confiscation for cues with white- or cream-colored materials that are not ivory? In other words, do the authorities have the knowledge and means to distinguish between ivory and non-ivory look-alike materials?
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Lol... Off course it easy to identify ivory... All u need is a ultra violet light......
 
kvinbrwr said:
I'm been friggin lucky about 80 times compared to zero times unlucky, so I guess I'm just REAL friggin lucky.

Kevin
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Yes!!!
i"m been lucky about 20 times also... so my 20 and Kevins 80 ...it is over 100!!!
Thats REAL luck!
 
jmurphy said:
Gary If I'm not mistaken Elephants do die from time to time naturally. Should we not make use of their skins & tusks?
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You watch too many tarzan movies.......... there is no elephant grave yard......... every piece of ivory comes from an elephant that was killed for its ivory,,,,,,

Kim
 
VolturiCases said:
Lol... Off course it easy to identify ivory... All u need is a ultra violet light......
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Please explain the difference using ultraviolet light. And do all the possible confiscating authorities have ultraviolet light to examine cues?
 
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