A Fine Pair of Silver Mounted Wild Boar Tusks, Ceylon, Sri Lanka c.1886 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Cartoons and pinups

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around the last ‘o’ that has been reapplied at some stage but the whole is nicely aged

perfumery products Floral Cachoo Ottos

survives from the first quarter of the twentieth century

tramp clown Mark Anthony

A Fine Pair of Silver Mounted Wild Boar Tusks, Ceylon, Sri Lanka c.1886 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Cartoons and pinupsOrigin: Sri Lankan Period: Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1886 Width: 5 inches Depth: 4 inches The late nineteenth century wild boar (Sus scrofa cristatus) tusks hunted in Ceylon in 1886 and later mounted in the Edwardian period in silver and hallmarked for Horton & Allday, Birmingham in the year 1910. The inscription to the mount reads BOAR TUSHES CEYLON 1886 H. D. D. TO E. J. XMAS 1910. Clearly presented as a Christmas gift