Inuit sea otter amulet – £24,000.
A 19th century sea otter amulet in walrus ivory and baleen fashioned as a mother and her pup sold for £24,000 at the Woolley & Wallis (25% buyer’s premium) sale of Tribal Art and Antiquities in Salisbury on December 15.
It was one of two similar 19th century Inuit carvings in the sale each estimated at £4000-6000.