Scrimshaw walrus tusk, patriotic vignettes and figures

walrus tusk

SCRIMSHAW & ALLIED ARTS - TUSKS
marad; scrimshaw
Finney, N. S.
ivory
overall: 24 5/8 x 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.;Overall: 24 5/8 x 3 1/2 x 2 5/8 in.

Walrus tusk with pierced tip, one of a pair, unsigned, attributed to Nathaniel S. Finney; decorated with portraits and vignettes of heroic and American figures: William Tecumseh Sherman, Armed Columbia in tunic and helmet, with sword and shield, Presidents Lincoln and Washington, General Winfield Scott, an American flag, an eagle and a North American Indian girl; known from contemporaneous photographs to have been exhibited at Abe Warner's Old Cobweb Palace saloon, San Francisco,1880's or earlier; See Richard C. Malley, "Graven by the Fishermen Themselves: Scrimshaw in Mystic Seaport Museum" (1982), Stuart M. Frank, "Scrimshaw
and Provenance" (2012), and William Gilkerson, "The Scrimshander" (1975).


1957.704

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