American Scrimshaw and Polychrome Antique Sperm Whale Tooth, mid 19th Century, depicting an American three-mast frigate flying colors with eagle above clutching U.S. flags and a banner which reads “E Pluribus Unum”; the reverse engraved with a husband and wife standing under a willow tree, the gentleman handing a bible to his wife; signed in a cartouche with initials AT, possible Archibald Thom[p]son out of New Bedford.
Height 5.5 in.
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