C.1830 Broadside ‘Vegetable Ivory or Nuts of the Ivory Plant’ A. Shand, London printers, a description of the nut and its uses. It grows on a palm which is found along the Pacific Seaboard of South America from Panama to Peru. The palm is also found in the Mascaren Islands of the Indian Ocean where it is known as the Tagua Plant, single sheet, laid on album sheet