Stick in your thumb & pull out a plum?
Define 'relatively new'. Great photos, BTW. If the 4th one is showing the inside of the bottom part, my first reaction was that it was meant to...
Elephants carved in ivory, especially these parades of them were everywhere it seems, when I was a kid. I was fascinated by a little jewellery...
Wonder what the missing piece looked like. If everyone with a Sarchi to sell is to be believed, they were all made in 1920. I'm not sure anyone...
He dropped it when he was taking it off on his way to his girlfriend's. The last initial M is the only thing that immediately suggests the ring...
How so? Mammoth tusks continue to be found & slip into trade. See this thread:...
The combination of reclining/recumbant and roaring is unusual. Unless he's yawning.
Paperweight size?
It is ivory. It is, because the written documentation standard is one most people can't meet.
Size, please.
Yeah, just more evidence for resin, probably made in China. They're brilliant at it. Let's see the other one when you're ready.
Maybe Oiwa? [IMG] http://mentalfloss.com/article/59737/10-horrifying-demons-and-spirits-japanese-folklore
Still looks like resin.
We have limited views of this one. Since the several we've found are each different from one another, maybe there were changes in how they were...
We could definitely use a pic of the bottom. Right now, I agree with resin.
If it is, I'd take it over any of the others.
Wondering if one or more bulbs inside are not burned out at present? But thanks for letting us have some idea of how it looks when lit. I don't...
I keep thinking OBB's has baby teeth embedded in it with gold drizzled over.
The way the rim of the lower section has been treated is very odd. Someone stabbed at it, seemingly with something fairly blunt, sometimes...
The word 'collective' is коллектив. The backwards R is a Y sound, as in yacht. I don't have the knowledge to know what word would have gone with...
Separate names with a comma.
