An Important Nantucket Scrimshaw Sperm Whale Tooth of the Ship Susan by Frederick Myrick

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An Important Nantucket Scrimshaw Sperm Whale Tooth of the Ship Susan by Frederick Myrick (1808-1862), dated March 27, 1829; the obverse engraved with a broadside view of the full-rigged ship “Susan” under plain sail with three whaleboats lowered, whale with multiple spouts and a whale’s tail, banner above inscribed “The Susan amongst a school of whales” and a couplet below the ocean waves “Death to the living long live the killers / Success to sailors wives & greasy luck to whalers”, crossed American flags over […]

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Frederick Myrick Scrimshawed Susan’s Tooth, February the 8th, 1829

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“The ship Susan of Nantucket” within a banner above the whale ship Susan cutting in and raising the blanket, 3 longboats and 3 whales.  A spread winged eagle within a vine clutching arrows and branch wearing a shield and “E. Pluribus Unum” banner in beak.  The reverse with eagle in flight with banner “The Susan on her homeward bound passage” above the whale ship Susan approaching a lighthouse in full sail and calm water.  The tip of the tooth engraved with two American crossed flags […]

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