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A FINE 19TH CENTURY SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WALRUS TUSK
incised over both sides with chronological images of a British whaler leaving port and in a storm, the reverse showing 'No 4 boat' about to harpoon and then wrecked, terminating in whale profiles on both sides -- 25in. (63½cm.)
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incised over both sides with chronological images of a British whaler leaving port and in a storm, the reverse showing 'No 4 boat' about to harpoon and then wrecked, terminating in whale profiles on both sides -- 25in. (63½cm.)
See illustration
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