Walrus Closeup

By cropping right in on the face, this gold-tone earring design departs from Mike Warner's typical full-body silhouettes to highlight the walrus's distinctive features. The photo-etched metal detailing highlights the creature's thick tusks alongside the dense cluster of coarse whiskers, or vibrissae, which these Pacific and Atlantic mammals rely on to sense prey in dark ocean mud. It is a scarce find in the secondary market and one of the more expressive marine portraits in the Wild Bryde lineup.

• Subject: Pinnipeds
• Category: Single Species Portraits
• Form: Earrings
• Finish: Gold Plated
• Rarity: scarce
• Tags: Face Only, Framed, Species Photo, Theme Overlap
• Reference: WLR-02

Walrus Closeup is a vintage Wild Bryde earrings featuring pinnipeds. This entry in the Wild Bryde Unofficial Collectors Guide documents the piece with photographs and collector notes for identification.