A LARGE 19TH-CENTURY AMERICAN SAILOR'S SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALE'S TOOTH
worked over both sides with a full-length depiction of a beautiful lady in ball gown, finished in coloured inks; the reverse with a soldier group and cavalryman and crossed Stars & Stripes -- 6¼in. (16cm.) high, 358g.; together with another, smaller, depicting an aviary, and a seated lady in hat, finished in coloured inks -- 5in. (12.5cm.) high, 206g.
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Condition Report
the first: 1in. sliver off back of tip; root filled with plaster for mounting, inscribed 'W5.66.76'; the smaller has old drill-hole on one side of root

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