Amazing Alaskan Inuit Scrimshawed Creature with Tiny Legs (and Some Losses) toy skittles This one was produced by

This one was produced by the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop

on their chests

I must say this large one is my favorite--Japanese I believe

3 7/8" t x 3 3/4" w x 4 1/8" deep (long)

Amazing Alaskan Inuit Scrimshawed Creature with Tiny Legs (and Some Losses) toy skittles This one was produced byThis incredible carving shows some damage missing part of the tail (hard to know how long it once was), one inlaid eye (carved of baleen I believe) and with what I believe is a glued repair to the trunk about midway down, and perhaps something once extended from the mouth as well as the surface is rough there but what a fantastic creature nonetheless. What sort of creature I am not sure and have not found another quote like it; perhaps a mythological