Sold for $3,250

Erotic Scrimshaw Sperm Whale Tooth Snuff Container, Signed Josiah Wells, circa 1850, with wood cap and removable plug, engraved with a seated sailor smoking a pipe and a ship behind him. Wraparound phrase at the top “My Snuff and My gal are all I need.” The reverse depicts a sailor presumed to be Josiah and his gal walking with their genitals exposed.

Length 3 in.