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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 2881449, member: 55&quot;]Google search for &quot;four winds scrimshaw kit&quot; gives quite a number of results, and most of the kits seem to say it is a real whale tooth.&nbsp; Hard to say from the photos, but if the kit dates from the 1960s as most of the listings indicate, I recall that at that time sperm whale teeth were both legal, and much more common than they are today. </p><p>They were common enough that, just as an example, a commercial company was able to make and sell cheese slicers with genuine sperm whale tooth handles, selling them at the Bon Marche in Seattle in the 60s and 70s.</p><p>But that is a long and different story.&nbsp; But they indeed had a large enough supply that it was commercially viable to use genuine teeth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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