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Gideon Antiques
7803 Maple Ridge Road
Bethesda MD 20814
301-537-5117

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$220.00

 MID-CENTURY SIGNED INUIT SCRIMSHAW 
LETTER OPENER
From an extensive private collection of ivory and bone desk objects, this is a scrimshaw letter opener, by Alaskan Eskimo carvers ca. 1950, made of walrus ivory, with etched fish form handle; the blade etched with a scene of a seal and her pup on an ice floe; signed “F.E.”famous carver Frank Ellanna,of King Island,Alaska. Measurement: length, 7 inches. Condition: excellent.


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