Walrus tooth scrimshaw engraved on one side... - Lot 321 - Vasari Auction

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Walrus tooth scrimshaw engraved on one side... - Lot 321 - Vasari Auction
Walrus tooth scrimshaw engraved on one side with three sailors setting up a cannon and on the other side with a bust of Napoleon. (wear, feles) Height Height : 18 cm Note: The etymology of the term is uncertain. A late 19th-century American dictionary defines the word as a nautical term for "any object produced by sailors during the hours of liberty". In his novel Moby-Dick, Herman Melville refers to "skrimshander articles" engraved by the sailors of whalers.
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