Yet another Inuit (?) seal carving . . .

Me too. He sits here on my desk, and gives me sweet looks all day long.

 

Inuit carved bird.


Inuit carved duck.


Inuit carved seal.


Inuit carved river otter.



Messi.

 

Shiloh, I'm not convinced about your otter. Face looks more like a polar bear. Usually otters look more, um, otterish.

 

Mark, I was just grabbig pics off the net

 

It's OK, I bought the above piece from a major auction house that had it listed as a polar bear. In their defense, if you look at it from the other side and don't see the long tail (which bears don't have) it does sorta look like a primitive bear.

 

If I had a nickel for every time a major auction house mis- identifies a lot......I'd have many many nickels !

 

Wow-That little sculpture post turned into a very long,stimulating thread.You never know what will happen when you list something-but it definitely beats getting ignored though.
Mess- Good luck with your Seal,Bird,Otter,Giraffe,Anteater,Kitty-Wait ! Maybe a passenger on Noah's Ark carved this,that might make this rather valuable.
Opinions on poss of Noah's Ark provenance ? Sumerian 3000-4000 BCE .

 

Just FYI -- Messilane hasn't come back here in quite a while.
She is my friend on Facebook, and has moved her posting activities there, it seems. It happens!

 

Hope Messilane is doing well-she inspired quite a long interesting thread.Wonder if she actually kicked the antiquing habit ?

 

I don't know about that... we don't talk a lot. Mostly just "Like" each other's posts.

 

See,there I go again-responding to these damned 8 year old Posts.I'm slowly getting better at check the dates.It must be my fascination with Time Travel ?

 

when u click on Forums..... there are prompts for Watched Threads & New Posts....
clicking on these will keep u current to what's happening now on the board..

 

Thanks komo-that will help.