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Originally used for holding cutlery
or flowering branches
with some light stains on front and back
and a small tear at upper right
just great lines and a fantastic patina
Inuit Carved Soapstone Narwahl with Bone Tusk antique engraving sea polyps Originally used for holding cutleryWhat a miraculous creature is the narwhal (or narwhale, or Unicorn of the Sea!), possessing a sense of the mythological, but real, found in the Arctic waters around Greenland, Canada, and Russia. The spiraled tusk is actually an elongated tooth, which, almost exclusively in males, can can grow up to 10 feet long. It is most commonly a left tooth, but occasionally a right tusk develops too, giving some narwhal two tusks! I can't help but to think of
