Inuit Carved Soapstone Narwahl with Bone Tusk antique engraving sea polyps On its underside is the

On its underside is the remains of what I think was an old label

square on the other) with black and red details (I honestly can't tell how the black and red were achieved)

and a small tear at upper right

Only very light wear

just great lines and a fantastic patina

Inuit Carved Soapstone Narwahl with Bone Tusk antique engraving sea polyps On its underside is theWhat 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