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Just to clarify, this is a pen, a dip pen, as others have mentioned, made of ivory and baleen; if it was in hand, you'd see at the thick end where...
No panda; Northwest Coast (Alaska) native designs. The red color would be an added pigment. A pen certainly.
Right, AJ nailed it, pretty much; and AJ's and Komo's link has a nice bio of this Nuu-chah-nulth (Tseshaht) artist living in Vancouver. I'd add...
I'd go along with Komo, though I'd say the usage of NW Coast forms is so general I'm not sure it could be attributed to any particular tribal...
I like the cut the thread, and dental pick ideas; but the thread might be really saturated with the epoxy, so if it was mine, and that didn't take...
Paperweight or decor item, recent. I think we've had threads about these before. Have you tried a magnet?
Sure, at first glance I thought I saw the Nootka spiral, but looking more closely, not so. And the minimal cedar and geometric design likely...
Lombok is a major producer of export baskets, easy to find catalogs with thousands of designs online. I'd guess the lidless one is more likely...
Upon closer looks at the links I found, I don't see any "marble" either; but do see the Spanish "marfil" which translates as "ivory." I like...
Exactly. And the difficulty in finding details is not what one encounters when searching for actual artists, or actual antiques; for those, one...
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