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    Goblet-shaped decorated mortar with pestle

    1600-1800

    Ivory mortar, decorated with latitudinal lines, goblet shape, with double ended pestle which may not have originally belonged to mortar, provenance unknown, 1700-1900

    Ivory mortar and boxwood pestle

    1700-1900

    Mortar and pestle, used in snuff manufacture, with small leather skin pouch and pick, wood, mortar with ivory rim, Inuit peoples (originally recorded as 'Eskimo'), Canadian, 1880-1930

    Mortar and pestle

    1880-1930

    Goblet-shaped ivory mortar, badly broken base and with metal strip around rim, with ivory pestle with some latitudinal line decoration, provenance unknown, 1700-1900

    Ivory mortar and pestle

    1700-1900

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