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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 3943382, member: 55"]The first, indeed walrus tusk; not sure if fossilized or perhaps just darkened with age. The design is very generic, and I'd suspect it is a "Nuguruk" piece:</p><p>starting as early as the 1920s, a Seattle jewelry company began to hire people, mostly non-natives, to apply scrimshaw to real ivory; using generic designs supplied by the company and signing them all "Nuguruk," "Nunuk," or just not signing them at all.</p><p>They are real ivory, but not real native work. Value is less than real native scrimshaw; but they do have some value.</p><p>An internet search might well turn up duplicates of this design, which would add certainty to the opinion.</p><p>See <a href="http://ahgupuk.com/Naguruk%20Nuguruk%20Nunuk.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ahgupuk.com/Naguruk%20Nuguruk%20Nunuk.html" rel="nofollow">http://ahgupuk.com/Naguruk Nuguruk Nunuk.html</a></p><p>or <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/786792213/nuguruk-scrimshaw-pinbrooch" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/786792213/nuguruk-scrimshaw-pinbrooch" rel="nofollow">https://www.etsy.com/listing/786792213/nuguruk-scrimshaw-pinbrooch</a> for an example.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 3943382, member: 55"]The first, indeed walrus tusk; not sure if fossilized or perhaps just darkened with age. The design is very generic, and I'd suspect it is a "Nuguruk" piece: starting as early as the 1920s, a Seattle jewelry company began to hire people, mostly non-natives, to apply scrimshaw to real ivory; using generic designs supplied by the company and signing them all "Nuguruk," "Nunuk," or just not signing them at all. They are real ivory, but not real native work. Value is less than real native scrimshaw; but they do have some value. An internet search might well turn up duplicates of this design, which would add certainty to the opinion. See [URL]http://ahgupuk.com/Naguruk%20Nuguruk%20Nunuk.html[/URL] or [URL]https://www.etsy.com/listing/786792213/nuguruk-scrimshaw-pinbrooch[/URL] for an example.[/QUOTE]
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