Alaskan Inuit Carved Tusk Polar Bear Salt and Pepper Shakers qajar lacquer box and sized for standard taper

and sized for standard taper candles

Both the plant and the paper are in very good shape

which for me transforms it into a sort of fossilized sculpture

to form the scales

which I think makes them a complete set

Alaskan Inuit Carved Tusk Polar Bear Salt and Pepper Shakers qajar lacquer box and sized for standard taperI'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