Decorated busk of brown baleen

busk

SCRIMSHAW & ALLIED ARTS - BUSKS
Brazil, Pernambuco
before 1947
0 x 14.25 x 0

Decorated busk of brown baleen. One end shaped to a head with figure below and word 'Anabelle'; also a ship under which is word 'Pernambuco' and a whale, with the inscription: 'On the Off Shore grounds I think of thee So I'll catch my whales and leave the sea'.

UNIDENTIFIED ship
1947.1394