Live Auction 2343Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Prints
A SCRIMSHAW WHALE TOOTH
Lot 62 ANOTHER PROPERTY

A SCRIMSHAW WHALE TOOTH

AMERICAN, 19TH CENTURY

Closed29 September 2010

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USD 6,250

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A SCRIMSHAW WHALE TOOTH
AMERICAN, 19TH CENTURY
7¾ in. long

Specialist note

For a related example and possible mate, see Nina Hellman and Norman Brouwer, A Mariner's Fancy: The Whaleman's Art of Scrimshaw (New York, 1992), p. 54, figs. 83 and 84.