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And in addition, I enjoy the way the British Roadshow appraisers will often frame the valuation as a question: "If I were to place a value on...
Is it possible the bear is studio pottery rather than commercially produced?
Just for comparison, a walrus ivory lynx by Leonard Savage, Athabascan, from Alaska. I wouldn't think this was the carver of your piece; but it...
Mine would likely be described as Inupiaq Eskimo, from Alaska.
My own opinion: it could well have been carved by an Alaskan Native; there is no reason a bobcat or lynx could not be a subject for a native...
I had to look that one up. :wideyed:
And anything Native American/Canadian First Nations...
I think your description nailed it, except that the alligator/crocodile guys appear to be milking a giraffe, or something.....like a strange...
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Of course...I know I've seen these before, and am thinking marine mammal, or something else from Alaska or BC... I've even got one, but forget...
The tooth could be walrus (not the big tusk, obviously). It is a tooth though, not a claw or carving.
I'm thinking caps also....similar to: [ATTACH]
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