Thursday, June 29, 2023

Scrimshaw

The word actually refers to something much broader, but for most of us scrimshaw means these, carving by nineteenth-century whalers mainly done on whale bones and teeth. That's a sperm whale tooth above, with a clipper ship carved in 1867.

Set of dice and dice holder.




More sperm whale teeth.


Pie crimper "Made for Sweet Sally"

Set of walrus tusks.

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