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

A decorative gem encompassing all the fun of the fair

Rescue workers pull bodies out of the charred remains of the Foxbus A350 which had slammed and burned into the ground

The T-shaped oval fronted button with hand carved decorative lobed cross motif is in original condition

Of fluted design

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