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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 4612318, member: 55"]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 the nib would fit in. Not an uncommon item, but hard to find in an internet search unless you know exactly what to search for - like "carved ivory dip pen totem design" perhaps.</p><p>Here's a similar one, from Flickr, captioned as a dip pen:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]410428[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 4612318, member: 55"]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 the nib would fit in. Not an uncommon item, but hard to find in an internet search unless you know exactly what to search for - like "carved ivory dip pen totem design" perhaps. Here's a similar one, from Flickr, captioned as a dip pen: [ATTACH=full]410428[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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