Which got me thinking. I can see why the manufacturers wouldn't want me to think it was geniune ivory pigment, because there'd be a lot of very annoyed rhinos wanting to find out where I lived.
But the thing is, there's no such thing as black ivory anyway. The stuff that's normally sold under that description is made from burnt bone, not burnt ivory. The only time you'll see real burnt ivory is when animal conservationists put a pile of seized elephant tusks on a bonfire, so as to keep it out of circulation. (And no, since you ask, ivory doesn't burn in the normal way anyway.
)So what I've got here is a tube of paint that's a fake version of a product that isn't legal, in a colour that doesn't naturally exist, in a material that wouldn't work as a pigment even if it were genuine, which it isn't. Triple-depth fakery, in fact. I must remember to grab a few tubes of unicorn dung blue the next time I'm out shopping.
BJ