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A heavy knife with an ivory inset, shaped like a fishing knife, is among the pieces that most directly reflect Spratling's Alaskan experience. In 1948 and 1949 he designed roughly two hundred models for an Alaska craft project, working with native materials including ivory, abalone, and malachite (Morrill, pp. 66-67); a substantial ivory-handled blade of this kind carries that work back into his own production. It is recorded in Spratling Silver, its Centennial Edition, and Phyllis Goddard's field guide.
The pairing of heavy silver with a panel of ivory gives the knife both weight and warmth, the form rugged rather than delicate.
The Alaska connection makes this one of the more historically resonant objects in the line, and its appearance across three major references anchors it firmly in the record.
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