Sold for $152,500
Scrimshaw Sperm Whale Tooth – The Wiscasset of Wiscasset, circa 1836, the Wiscasset flying the American flag and in full sail approaching a headland, with lighthouse and signed in fraktur “S. Svenson.” The underneath inscribed “A tooth of a 90 bbl whale got on the coast of New Zealand, Jany 7th 1836.” The verso depicts the Wiscasset engaged in whaling with three boats out on the ocean with whalers busy on a pod of five whales. Lat 30.30 S; Lon. 177.30 W.
Length 8 ¾ in. Width 3 in.
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