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A SCRIMSHAW DECORATED WHALE'S TOOTH
incised on one side with a starboard portrait of a whaler with banner name EXMOUTH and a depiction of a flintlock whale gun opposite, with inscription HARPOON GUN BUILT 1815 BY GEORGE WALLIS JR.OF HULL, WITH ENCLOSED FLINTLOCK and further inscribed between images CAPTAIN EDWARD THOMPSON 1ST MATE SAMUEL LAST 2ND MATE NATHAN DREW BOS"N" JACOB SCALES 1ST HARPOONER WILLIAM CLOW RECORD CATCH 167 TUNS OIL 6 TONS BONE -- 6in. (15cm.)
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incised on one side with a starboard portrait of a whaler with banner name EXMOUTH and a depiction of a flintlock whale gun opposite, with inscription HARPOON GUN BUILT 1815 BY GEORGE WALLIS JR.OF HULL, WITH ENCLOSED FLINTLOCK and further inscribed between images CAPTAIN EDWARD THOMPSON 1ST MATE SAMUEL LAST 2ND MATE NATHAN DREW BOS"N" JACOB SCALES 1ST HARPOONER WILLIAM CLOW RECORD CATCH 167 TUNS OIL 6 TONS BONE -- 6in. (15cm.)
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