SOLD FOR $48,000
Extremely Rare and Fine “Map Tooth” Sailor Scrimshaw Whale Tooth, American, mid 19th century, delicately incised in exquisite detail with map and chart of New Bedford Harbor, Buzzards Bay and the Elizabeth Islands, depicted center is a whaling ship’s return to port, showing its plotted course verso with an action filled whaling scene, a ship and four boats (one stove) hunt amidst a pod of whales spewing red-inked blood.
Length 7 ½ in.
Provenance: Nina Hellman, Nantucket, MA
The Carol and Stephen Memishian
19th Century Scrimshaw Collection
Literature: Illustrated p. 2 and 60 of : E. Norman Flayderman, Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, New Milford, CT, 1972.
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