A SCRIMSHAW WHALE TOOTH
American or English, 19th Century
Engraved with a portrait of a lady, on a wood stand
5¼ in. high
A SCRIMSHAW WHALE TOOTH
American or English, 19th Century
Engraved with a portrait of a lady, on a wood stand
5¼ in. high
Charles H. Carpenter, Jr. and Mary Grace Carpenter The Decorative Arts and Crafts of Nantucket (New York, 1987) fig. 160, p. 172.
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