Scrimshaw tooth with engraving of woman

scrimshaw tooth

SCRIMSHAW & ALLIED ARTS - TEETH
marad; scrimshaw
ivory
Overall: 6 x 3 1/8 x 2 3/16 in.

Whale tooth. Woman holding a bonnet, colored red, blue and green on one side, and a horse in outline standing on cross-hatched floor on other. Image of woman holding a bonnet from "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," August 1854.


1947.1351

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