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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dawnno, post: 615677, member: 10171&quot;]First, &#039;you lucky dog, you.&#039;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nice piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next, I&#039;m going out on a limb here, but I&#039;m thinking possibly early 20th C.&nbsp;&nbsp; The walrii (walrussians??) do have an Inuit feel, but the underside seems to me like a fine incised pinnate leaf design with a tassel tip, and that&#039;s curious.&nbsp; and the flippers are kept simple too.&nbsp; So it almost has a &#039;sailor scrimshaw&#039; feel to it too.&nbsp; As well as the utilitarian nature... so I&#039;m thinking earlier than later.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I can&#039;t make up my mind b/c of the overall style and would not put it in the &#039;sailor&#039; scrimshaw camp at all... more like catering to visitors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Found this modern artist with similar style, so it might show some stylistic continuity from earlier generation carvers.[ATTACH=full]180515[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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