SOLD FOR $2,400
Sailor Scrimshaw Sperm Whale Tooth, 19th century, recto stipple engraved with a fashionable beauty beside a fountain of classical inspiration, attended by a flying dove, all below a blossoming rose, verso with an American frigate, a Federal eagle above, on a wood stand.
Length 6 ½ in.
Provenance:
Nina Hellman, Nantucket, MA
The Carol and Stephen Memishian
19th C. Scrimshaw Collection
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