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A "Black Forest" ivory carved Italian Greyhound / Whippet cuffstuds SOLD A pair of "Black Forest" ivory carved standing Italian Greyhound / Whippet cuffstuds cufflinks. Each cuffstud as one piece of ivory.
Such carvings were from German workshop of the Graf von Erbach-Erbach in Odenwald, and the Kehrer family at Erbach, Ernst (working 1830-40) and his son Edouard (1812-63). They were made from around 1830 to 1860.
In the jewellery collection of the British Museum, London, there is a brooch with the same dog seated with stag and deer.
German, circa 1850.
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