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From Bob Weisblut's Collection: A whale tooth, fully articulated and carved, representing 5 household Gods and a child on top, Japanese early 20th century.
From Bob Weisblut's Collection: This is a grouping of Japanese cottages, elephant ivory, c. 1904 (an almost identical cottage was awarded second place in a national ivory carving contest in 1904 in Japan.)
From Bob Weisblut's Collection: Corn cob with mice- A difficult to locate fully carved Hippo incisor tooth. Late 20th century Chinese.
From Bob Weisblut's Collection: Assortment of Hornbill Ivories- Including hanging temple vase, uncut skull, skull with casque carved, snuff bottle from beak,sensor, snuff bottle, pendant, netsuke, ear weight, belt buckle, cicada.
From Bob Weisblut's Collection: Triptych (3 part) of Marie Antoinette- European, made of elephant ivory, mid 19th c. The scenes inside show her with the King, his being arrested, her being arrested.
 
From The Art Institute of Chicago (Pictures by Robert Overton): Germany, Circa 1640. Ebony, carved and inlaid ivory, stained and carved wood relief, gilt bronze, iron implements. This furniture type, characterized by many narrow drawers, developed from a Spanish document holder (varqueno) into a curiosity cabinet in northern Europe. Although Augsburg cabinets are typified by inlaid ivory on the ebony case, this exceptional example is also a virtual compendium of decorative techniques. The innermost wood reliefs depict various trades, while the theological virtue Charity, represented by an ivory statuette of a woman with children, crowns the whole. Besides holding a variety of precious objects, this cabinet also has an apothecary with five medicine canisters and various instruments, such as mortar and pestle. The clock (c. 1715) postdates the cabinet, but must have replaced an earlier one.
From Robert Overton's Collection: Tagua Nut "Vegetable Ivory" Figures from Equador
From Robert Overton's Collection: Mammoth Ivory Figures
From Robert Overton's Collection: A Camel Bone Elephant, India. (Often mistaken and sold as Ivory. Note the trangular shape and the porous texture. Also, the bone is hollow and has to be "capped" with another piece of bone on the top of the elephant to complete the figure.)
From Robert Overton's Collection: A Bone Cricket Cage, New Manufacture, China.
From Robert Overton's Collection: A Hippo Ivory Wiseman
From Robert Overton's Collection: A Warthog Tusk scrimshawed with grazing Zebras. Zimbabwe, Africa.
From Robert Overton's Collection: Alaskan Inuit (Eskimo) Walrus Ivory Billiken signed by Andrew Kunayak. Notice the marble-like osteodentine (secondary dentine) going through the center. This is unique to Walrus Tusk Ivory.
From Robert Overton's Collection: A Chinese Bud Vase, Elephant Ivory.
From Robert Overton's Collection: Common Pair of Chinese Emperor and Empress, Elephant Ivory.
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