Monday, August 27, 2018

IVORY ARRAY


8 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Patti Zerbini's "Cool Hand Luke"

Shannon & Buckles with "Tommy"

The brass band on his left tusk

covers the splice where it broke

Tony Diano sold Tommy to Feld

to be portrayed as "King Tusk"

Chic Silber said...


Luke will turn 33 in November

Tommy died in December of 02

at the age of 58

Chic Silber said...


Gentle giants both

Larry Louree said...

I found Luke to be a true gentleman. Has a playful demeanor.

Paul Gutheil said...

Luke did a number on a wheelbarrow in '94 just being a kid.
I have been intrigued for years with the variations of lengths in elephants trunks as may be seen here between these 2 fellows.

Chic Silber said...


It seems to me that most older

Asian ivory tend to cross when

Africans not so much

Chic Silber said...


That apparent trunk length

of Luke's might be the angle

the photo was taken from

It doesn't seem quite like

that in real life

Larry Louree said...

I the Africans tend to stay straighter so they can dig in the Savannah. At least that's what I learned from Nat Geo