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Thames Tunnel Vegetable Ivory Pincushion
This is a pincushion made of carved tagua nut, so-called ‘vegetable ivory,’ joined by a cushion of red fabric. On one side is a partly-legible legend ‘Present from the Thames Tunnel’. ‘Vegetable ivory’ is made from one of several varieties of plant, almost all of which grow exclusively in South America, the seeds of which …
