Whalebone busk

busk

SCRIMSHAW & ALLIED ARTS - BUSKS
marad; scrimshaw
13-3/8 x 1-3/4 in.

Scrimshaw whalebone busk, engraved on one side, 3 vertical sections of designs with lunettes top and bottom of semicircular sunburst; top to bottom: full length picture of woman in coat and hat; 2 girl children with flowers; equestrian statue of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg, snake on rock and at left background house with smoke coming out of chimney. Rounded ends, a hole each end at sunburst centers.


1939.1909.B

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Equestrian statues
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