Originals by Pierce & Co. has been creating handcrafted scrimshaw and antler knives, jewelry and accessories since 1963. Because all our beautiful scrimshaw and antler knives and other items are hand made, we can do any design - logo, initials, nautical, wildlife, fantasy, etc.

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Our Most Popular Hand Crafted Items

All our products:

Smaller Folding Knives, Key Rings & Money Clips
Small and Medium Folding Knives
Medium and Large Folding Knives
Fixed Blade Knives
Variety of Products in the Picture above
Shaving Accessories
Shed Antler Belt Buckles
Key Chains and Bola Ties
Timepieces and Smoking Accessories
Desk Accessories and Executive Gifts
Serving Utensils and Bar Tools
Candlesticks, Cribbage Boards & Boxes
Men's Jewelry and Money Clips
Women's Jewelry
Women's Accessories

What is Scrimshaw?

The art of scrimshaw dates back to whaling days over 200 years ago. The intricate hand carvings and engravings done by American whalemen are accepted as America's most important folk arts. Scrimshaw refers to the carvings or engravings of assorted bone and ivories.

The art of scrimshaw developed as months at sea stretched into years. Men's idle hours were occupied by etching discarded whale teeth and bone with scenes of the voyage and pictures found in books. With the disappearance of whaling, scrimshaw also almost disappeared.

This nearly forgotten art is still being kept alive by us in the same manner of the gone by days of whaling to create treasures of today and heirlooms of tomorrow.

Materials Used

The materials we use are both ecologically and environmentally safe. All our hand engraved designs are done on either shed antler bone which is naturally shed by deer, elk, and moose in the spring and regrown during the summer, or ancient fossil ivories found buried and preserved in the frozen tundra of Alaska from the extinct ice age mammoth elephants or walrus ivory thousands of years old. The items featured here use a polished brass base with 14 kt. gold or silver rhodium plate.

This knife has a beautiful hand scrimshawed image carved into a bone handle 2-1/2 inches long. Three stainless steel blades.                         Click to View or Buy    KN-87    $35

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Victor-Inox knife with 7 tools, hand scrimshawed 2.25 inch bone handle                Click to View or Buy    KN-140    $60

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Frost Cutlery blade with lock, hand scrimshawed 3 inch bone handle                              Click to View or Buy    KN-14    $40

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