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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13Horns for the Highest Bidders
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- Investments ranging from art to real estate are suffering
- from depression nowadays, but the bidding for elk horn is still
- going strong. Boy Scouts in Jackson, Wyo., who each year auction
- off the antlers shed by bull elk at the nearby National Elk
- Refuge, earlier this month collected a total of $76,177, or
- about $11.20 per lb. The price per pound has been rising about
- 50 cents annually, thanks in part to Asian bidders who can sell
- ground elk horn for as much as $300 per oz. because of its
- purported aphrodisiac and medicinal qualities. But this year
- Korean buyers sat on their hands, complaining that the ever
- pricier horns were now out of their range. The 6,839 lbs. of
- antlers went to 31 domestic buyers, who will use them largely
- to make furniture.
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