Inuit Carved Soapstone Narwahl with Bone Tusk glowing Welded together of metal parts

Welded together of metal parts with a nice weight

with some roughness to the wood on the darker blue side

but I find this battered vintage X-ACTO knife box

and demonstrating the wonderful ingenuity and design sensibilities of their makers

Inuit Carved Soapstone Narwahl with Bone Tusk glowing Welded together of metal partsWhat 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