Aryeh Teitelbaum

Aryeh Teitelbaum was a dentist in Ripon. His father was a secondhand clothes dealer in Birmingham, but the younger Teitelbaum spoke as if he was to the manor born. He earned a medal for his service during World War I. Veterinarians Wotan and Donner Rengaw, and George Holley were all patients of Teitelbaum. Teitelbaum was not a veterinary dentist, but his skill was such that the vets often consulted him about dental care in animals.

In Spring, 1938, Holley consulted Teitelbaum about one of his animal patients, a mammoth named Old Bill. Specifically, Holley requested that Teitelbaum create a prosthetic tusk. While Teitelbaum realized that Old Bill's owner, Wilf Latchett, wouldn't be able to afford such a thing, he decided the opportunity to work on a mammoth tusk was worth it. He sent Holley back to the Latchett farm to get an impression of the remaining stump of the tusk, providing him with sufficient molding compound to take an impression, and was pleased with the casting Holley took, concluding that he couldn't have done a better job himself.