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Mammoth Ivory Netsuke - Beautiful Mermaid | SKU: 2.30E+11

The carver has hand carved this Beautiful Mermaid . You can see all the small details of this Figures so clearly, it's stunnig.
Measurements: Height:1"- 2" / Depth: 1"- 2" 

A mermaid (from the Middle English mere in the obsolete sense 'sea' (as in maritime, the Latin mare, "sea") + maid(en)) is a legendary aquatic creature with the head and torso of human female and the tail of a fish. The male version of a mermaid is called a merman; the gender-neutral plural is merfolk or merpeople. Various cultures throughout the world have similar figures.

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