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Historical Archive: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Ivory, Bone, Horn, Leather, and Shell



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toy guillotine, bone, Musée Carnavalet Paris
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toy guillotine, oblique from above
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toy guillotine, lower part
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box in the form of a gloved hand making the 'fig' gesture, ivory, J. Ch. Lücke?, 18th c. Germany, MAAB
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box in the form of a gloved hand making the 'fig' gesture, oblique from left
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Engraved musket powder horn, cow, ox, or buffalo horn, 18th c. US, UMMA 2007/1.101. This work has its own page.
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St. Francis, ivory/leather, Spain 18th c., p.c., which has its own page
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dancing Death, frontal, ivory, Germany c.1700, Schn B151
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dancing Death, profile
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powder flask, cowrie shell and brass, Germany c.1750, PMA 1977-167-929
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powder flask, oblique from right
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Anti-slavery medallion, William Hackwood (Wedgewood) 1787 England: stoneware, steel, ivory. AIC 1912.326
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thistle flower flagon, horn/glass, René Lalique 1898-1900, KGM 1900.6020