Picture No | 11100502 |
Date | 1909 |
Description | Billiard balls made from ivory |
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A huge pile of 20,000 billiard balls, equal in value to £16,000 (in 1909). To produce this heap about 2000 elephants had to die - a shocking statistic.
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Source | Unattributed photograph in Pearson's Magazine, 1909 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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