✅ SOLVED Large Boars Tusk?

[diggummup]

Is that what this is? I've seen plenty but none this large. Found in a box of junk at an estate sale.

 

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[tamrock]

I say I

 

[Tedyoh]

Looks like a rodent tooth to me, prehistoric?

 

[Jublain]

I don't think its a boar's tusk. Maybe goat horn? A tusk would be more worn where it came into contact with the upper jaw.

 

[Subterranean]

I say I

Hog-Friggin'-larious Tamrock!

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Goat horns would have a bone core and be very hollow otherwise - like sheep and cows.

What else has large teeth like that ?

Warthog?



Small Hippo?

 

[old digger]

What you have there are some hippo tusks/teeth.

 

[Jublain]

They look hollow to me

 

[diggummup]

The hippo idea is looking good. It's partially hollow, about halfway. Weighs 7.6 ounces. Looks like the dark end has been "sawed" off almost. More pics-





edit- after looking around some more, I believe this is a hippo incisor.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Not sawn - worn down from rubbing the other teeth. Tedyoh was on the right track because - like a squirrel or beaver - they keep growing for life.

I didn't say "not hollow" at all, I said not "very" hollow like horn. You never hear about anyone having a powdertusk with their flintlock.