Genuine Hand Carved Scrimshaw and Antler Knives. Originals by Pierce carries a wide variety of hand-crafted items. Scrimshaw knives, Scrimshaw antler, antler carvings, Ivory products, small pocket knives, large folding knives, scrimshaw belt buckles, scrimshaw magnifying glass, bar tools, desk accessories, hand-crafted carvings, scrimshaw bone boxes, scrimshaw  bone globes, scrimshaw money clips and pendents. Thank you for stopping by, have fun and enjoy your shopping.

Welcome to Originals by Pierce, Since 1963, our goal has been to create accessories and jewelry hand crafted with the exceptional value; value to the individual who buys one of our handmade products for themselves or as a gift from a special place they have visited.

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

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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.