Inuit Carved Stone Feasting Seal with Wonderful Flippers victorian egg charm created more than a hundred

created more than a hundred years prior (in 1898

this gold painted cast iron bank would have been quite the current thing

but just found this one

I am not certain the age on this but know that it was held in a family estate for many years

Inuit Carved Stone Feasting Seal with Wonderful Flippers victorian egg charm created more than a hundredA beautiful Inuit carving all the way around, of a seal, I believe, feasting on what I presume is a fish dinner. Sensitive carving of the paw like front flippers, and the wide back flippers curled flat against its body at the rear, and I really love the curve of the line where the seal's body meets the rock upon which it lays. Unusual and lovely. 6 1 8" w x 3 5 8" d x 2 5 8"" t and in very good condition, with some niece veining in the stone from