• Title
  Two whale's teeth scrimshaw
• Call number
  SAFE/DR 40/Item a
  SAFE/DR 40/Item b
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Type of material
  Objects
• Reference code
  839605
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  2 scrimshaw - whale teeth - both approximately 18 x 8 cm
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Lent to American Bicentenary Celebration Exhibition, December 1975-March 1978
  
  Copy Print available at SPF/Scrimshaw
  Digital order no:Album ID : 997088
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Depicts whaling scenes on both teeth:
  Two sailing ships and in the foreground men trying to harpoon a whale
  Sailing ship with the whale being flensed
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Sperm whale teeth, early 1800's with British, or more probably American ships
  
  Reference:
  Information supplied by Vaughan Evans, 13 November 1986
• Subject
  scrimshaws
  
• Topic
  teeth (animals)
  engravings
  whaling
  scrimshaws
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Dixson 60 - State Library of New South Wales (2013)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE653162

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