Inuit Carved Stone Feasting Seal with Wonderful Flippers kitchen utensil a German artist and sculptor

a German artist and sculptor best known for his exquisitely crafted--and highly collectible--series of 24 small brass figurines representing Judaic characters

and even better when it's a coin bank too

plus a few extras about the John Ranck of Montgomery County

very sturdy and sound and with a very nice patina

Inuit Carved Stone Feasting Seal with Wonderful Flippers kitchen utensil a German artist and sculptorA beautiful Inuit carving all the way around, of a seal, I believe, feasting on what I presume is a fish dinner. Sensitive carving of the paw like front flippers, and the wide back flippers curled flat against its body at the rear, and I really love the curve of the line where the seal's body meets the rock upon which it lays. Unusual and lovely. 6 1 8" w x 3 5 8" d x 2 5 8"" t and in very good condition, with some niece veining in the stone from