A Fine Pair of Silver Mounted Wild Boar Tusks, Ceylon, Sri Lanka c.1886 sub-Curios it is a remarkably aesthetically

it is a remarkably aesthetically pleasing item with its symmetrical looped handle

New Jersey and Ohio and this card would have hung proudly in a hardware shop front bay window or perhaps on the shop door itself

Of fluted design

with rope twist detailing set with red and blue rectangular and circular cabochons

A decorative gem encompassing all the fun of the fair

A Fine Pair of Silver Mounted Wild Boar Tusks, Ceylon, Sri Lanka c.1886 sub-Curios it is a remarkably aestheticallyOrigin: 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