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A PAIR OF LATE 19TH CENTURY SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WALRUS TUSKS
the first incised with a busy whaling scene off a tropical headland engraved May 1837: Gam with our friends on the Whaler Hawk off the Reef of Hawaii, the reverse with a portrait entitled Captn. Jacob Howarth below a horn of plenty and above a monument to America; the second with winter whaling scene entitled Nantucket The Whaler Mercury Whale hunting off the Coast of the Marquesas Islands, October 1839, the reverse with church, crossed U.S. flags with banner reading Think of Me When this You see, whales, harpoons and initials 'L.V.M.', each -- 16in. (40.5cm.) high
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the first incised with a busy whaling scene off a tropical headland engraved May 1837: Gam with our friends on the Whaler Hawk off the Reef of Hawaii, the reverse with a portrait entitled Captn. Jacob Howarth below a horn of plenty and above a monument to America; the second with winter whaling scene entitled Nantucket The Whaler Mercury Whale hunting off the Coast of the Marquesas Islands, October 1839, the reverse with church, crossed U.S. flags with banner reading Think of Me When this You see, whales, harpoons and initials 'L.V.M.', each -- 16in. (40.5cm.) high
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