Alaskan Inuit Carved Tusk Polar Bear Salt and Pepper Shakers antique color plate of the sort where balls

of the sort where balls

my very favorite subject

and who doesn't need more of that

without a flaw that I can see

Alaskan Inuit Carved Tusk Polar Bear Salt and Pepper Shakers antique color plate of the sort where ballsI've had a couple of Alaskan Inuit polar bears carved of walrus tusk, but never a shaker, or two! I found these at Brimfield, and of course it's the faces I couldn't resist, with carefully carved teeth inside those red painted open mouths. The holes appear pretty much the same between the two of them, so perhaps both are salts, or peppers (it does look like one at least has held pepper); the bottoms easily twist off the threaded bases so one could