A large 20th century scrimshaw whale's tooth with the bow of a ship**
A. Douglas Jacobs, 1975
engraved on both sides; the first with a modern engraving in polychrome colors of the bow of a ship showing part of the bowsprit, the figurehead in the form of a woman, with the tail of a diving whale and a ship in the background. Signed lower right A. Douglas Jacobs/1975. On the other side is an old unfinished engraving of an American eagle with a banner in her beak.
7½ in. (19.1 cm.) length.
A large 20th century scrimshaw whale's tooth with the bow of a ship**
A. Douglas Jacobs, 1975
engraved on both sides; the first with a modern engraving in polychrome colors of the bow of a ship showing part of the bowsprit, the figurehead in the form of a woman, with the tail of a diving whale and a ship in the background. Signed lower right A. Douglas Jacobs/1975. On the other side is an old unfinished engraving of an American eagle with a banner in her beak.
7½ in. (19.1 cm.) length.
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