Our Clan piper is an extremely talented young woman. She is a multi-instrumentalist who started to study bagpipes about 6 years ago. She has achieved grade one status this year and will be competing at the worlds this summer. She and her mom do volunteer work with Vets and she is there to pipe them in at the airport when they return from deployment or for memorial services. The old adage " good things happen to good people " definitely applies to her. Recently a family of a WWII Vet who met her was so impressed that they gifted her their late father's 1940s era Robertson pipes. I thought how perfect that a piper for Clan Donnachaidh should receive a set of vintage Robertson pipes. I heard her play them this past weekend at our Clan dinner and it was fantastic.

Talking with her later in the evening I found that they have a possible dilemma. The pipes almost certainly have ivory on the drones. I'm not positive but it does look like it. The family had no paperwork with the pipes so it may be impossible verify their age making it impossible to travel abroad with them without said papers. Does anyone know of a possible solution to this situation? I'm wondering if there was a process to acquire paperwork for them.