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A MID 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR'S SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALE'S TOOTH
incised overall and depicting a ship entitled H.M.S. FISGARD; the reverse with a cottage, further inscribed WELCOME HOME <1847>, with foliate work over upper half -- 6in. (15cm.) high; together with a further two teeth, one faintly worked on one side (damaged tip, 2½in. split from root). (3)
incised overall and depicting a ship entitled H.M.S. FISGARD; the reverse with a cottage, further inscribed WELCOME HOME <1847>, with foliate work over upper half -- 6in. (15cm.) high; together with a further two teeth, one faintly worked on one side (damaged tip, 2½in. split from root). (3)
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