Found this as well if it helps. Looks like this was when it was removed but it doesnt say exactly.
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Scroll down to November 10, 2003 and find the item listed
November 10, 2003
Here's another set of updates for you.
New Items: Bubbling Yellow Potion ; Bubbling Red Potion ; Initiate's Spirited Earring ; Large Sandblasted Ringmail Gloves ; Glue Powder ; Deep Barley Brew ; Deep Fungus Mold ; Bottle of Distilled Spirits ; Jagged Permafrost Shard ; Fire Giant Embers ; Fractured Centaur Hoof ; Potion Vial ; Verrell's Box of Potions ; Sword of Slate ; Sea Turtle Egg ; Cove Frog Skin
Updated Items: Tome of Miragul ; Silver Moon Chest Wraps ; Spell: Cripple ; Spell: Talisman of Jasinth ; Spell: Scars of Sigil ; Chunk of Meat ; Lion Meat ; High Quality Lion Skin ; Medium Quality Lion Skin ; Ethereal Parchment ; Blue Diamond ; Diamond ; Raw Diamond ; Necklace of Sentience ; Twisted Longbow ; A Tiny Nifilik ; Blood Runed Two Hander ; Entwined-Spores Earring ; Yellow Fang Earring ; Wand of Tranquility ; Greater Lightstone ; Gnome Glow Rod ; Thunder Salmon ; Pearlescent Fragment ; Mucus-Drenched Tunic ; Plant Shoot ; Flame Encased Feather; Jeweled Guard Staff ; Bone-Bladed Battlehammer ; Green Dragon Scales ; Padded Tigerskin Gloves ; Orb of Evasion ; Steel Bracer of Law ; Flayed Panther Hide ; Green Goblin Blood Vial ; Glowing Ring of Eternal Slumber
New Quests: Dragon Scale Conversion
New Recipes: Deep Barley Brew ; Glue Powder ; Large Sandblasted Ringmail Gloves