Hello! I have had this stick pin for hundred years. Well, actually it just seems that way.
Okay I bought it at an auction twenty years ago in an old jewelry box full of vintage jewelry in the Pacific Northwest.
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Is it scrimshaw? These flowers are carved into the (bone?) Ivory?
I do know that it does not have a seam. The line you see going around behind the flowers in part of the texture of the piece. It does seem to have a squiggly signature. Looks like aged ivory?
I’m just at a loss as to what to list it as.
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Thegirlsrock99 Reputation: 22 See Thegirlsrock99's booth |
are there faint cross hatching patterning in the bone when looked at front and back in strong light?
If so then its ivory
no patterning then its some sort of bone
the scratched in and inked floral is scrimshaw and usually the artist will have a signature somewhere in the picture
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FrogAndBearCreations Reputation: 1131 See FrogAndBearCreations' booth |
Here is some information on scrimshaw
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Barb'sPlace Reputation: 86 See Barb'sPlace's booth |
Yes, there is cross hatching and texture. The only signature is a sguiglly line. Thank you!
It is perfectly round though…
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