A Fine Pair of Silver Mounted Wild Boar Tusks, Ceylon, Sri Lanka c.1886 sub-Curios 24 Old Bond Street

24 Old Bond Street

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

The case is in good condition and can easily be wall mounted by simply adding wall hooks

Inner Screw Only” with operator handle over

A Fine Pair of Silver Mounted Wild Boar Tusks, Ceylon, Sri Lanka c.1886 sub-Curios 24 Old Bond StreetOrigin: 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