Inuit Carved Stone Feasting Seal with Wonderful Flippers victorian egg charm I’ve been eyeing the decorative

I’ve been eyeing the decorative use of stickpins on old pin cushions and other little things of late

created more than a hundred years prior (in 1898

but it did lose the fourth side of the perimeter framing at the edge of the well that exists

and would give a nice

Inuit Carved Stone Feasting Seal with Wonderful Flippers victorian egg charm I’ve been eyeing the decorativeA beautiful Inuit carving all the way around, of a seal, I believe, feasting on what I presume is a fish dinner. Sensitive carving of the paw like front flippers, and the wide back flippers curled flat against its body at the rear, and I really love the curve of the line where the seal's body meets the rock upon which it lays. Unusual and lovely. 6 1 8" w x 3 5 8" d x 2 5 8"" t and in very good condition, with some niece veining in the stone from