A PAIR OF ENGRAVED AND POLYCHROMED SCRIMSHAW WHALE TEETH
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A PAIR OF ENGRAVED AND POLYCHROMED SCRIMSHAW WHALE TEETH

AMERICAN OR BRITISH, 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ENGRAVED AND POLYCHROMED SCRIMSHAW WHALE TEETH
American or British, 19th century

Depicting a bust of a man and a woman, each with clover surround; on verso on the man the verse Robert Burns: I've been amused Burns by your many lays, and so due honour to you memory pays. J. Macauley"; on the woman Anna Maria Hall: Dame nature when she made thee was half inclined to make thy pretty face excel thy mind. J. Macauley
each aproximately 5¼ in. high (2)
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