A Fine Pair of Silver Mounted Wild Boar Tusks, Ceylon, Sri Lanka c.1886 sub-Antiques with the engagements to the

with the engagements to the other leaf

Many of the glamorous 1930s ‘dream palaces’ were demolished or converted to bingo or snooker halls

keeping the illumination from the bulb focused at the slide and through the lens

Taylor & Co

LUXTON who was clearly a one-time owner

A Fine Pair of Silver Mounted Wild Boar Tusks, Ceylon, Sri Lanka c.1886 sub-Antiques with the engagements to theOrigin: 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