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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 3357408, member: 55&quot;]It might be mentioned that &quot;real&quot; can have a number of different meanings...I&#039;ll mention Eskimo-style items often signed &quot;Nuguruk&quot; or &quot;Nunuk;&quot; these were made by a Seattle jewelry company from the late 1920s to the 1970s.&nbsp; They hired people, mostly non-natives, to put real scrimshaw on real ivory; walrus, even whale teeth; using templates of Eskimo themes supplied by the company.</p><p>These were in a sense real, certainly were real ivory; but real Eskimo/Inuit, or done by an actual artist named Nuguruk? No.</p><p>This ship looks a whole lot like the Nuguruk ship; but most of theirs had the signature on the front, sometimes on the back; and perhaps some were not signed &quot;Nuguruk&quot; at all.</p><p>I&#039;d say that yours looks like real scrimshaw, on ivory; but not real fancy, and possibly from a source similar to the &quot;Nuguruk&quot; pieces.</p><p>Compare:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]300234[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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