Inuit Carved Soapstone Narwahl with Bone Tusk handmade shelf thimble holder 1 1/8" tall

thimble holder 1 1/8" tall

but still bright and shiny and in great shape

This I can tell you is a really lovely one

I found her at a wonderful estate sale chock full of mid-century and contemporary ceramics

though find them quite rarely

Inuit Carved Soapstone Narwahl with Bone Tusk handmade shelf thimble holder 1 1/8" tallWhat a miraculous creature is the narwhal (or narwhale, or Unicorn of the Sea!), possessing a sense of the mythological, but real, found in the Arctic waters around Greenland, Canada, and Russia. The spiraled tusk is actually an elongated tooth, which, almost exclusively in males, can can grow up to 10 feet long. It is most commonly a left tooth, but occasionally a right tusk develops too, giving some narwhal two tusks! I can't help but to think of