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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 4464710, member: 55"]Like Komo says, marine ivory. Design is not only worn, but is quite generic; and it could be noted that since the 1920s and up until around 1975, a Seattle jewelry company arranged to have genuine ivory scrimshawed with generic designs supplied by the company, using mostly non-native workers; most but not all of these were signed on the front or back "Nuguruk," a fictional "Eskimo" name. The scrimshaw on the Nuguruk items is generally more rudimentary than on genuine native work.</p><p>Yours may be one of these, or not; but value-wise, it is what it appears to be: scrimshaw on ivory, quite worn.</p><p>A Nuguruk item, just as an example:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]385717[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 4464710, member: 55"]Like Komo says, marine ivory. Design is not only worn, but is quite generic; and it could be noted that since the 1920s and up until around 1975, a Seattle jewelry company arranged to have genuine ivory scrimshawed with generic designs supplied by the company, using mostly non-native workers; most but not all of these were signed on the front or back "Nuguruk," a fictional "Eskimo" name. The scrimshaw on the Nuguruk items is generally more rudimentary than on genuine native work. Yours may be one of these, or not; but value-wise, it is what it appears to be: scrimshaw on ivory, quite worn. A Nuguruk item, just as an example: [ATTACH=full]385717[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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