walrus tusk

SCRIMSHAW & ALLIED ARTS - TUSKS
marad; scrimshaw
Holmes, Joseph Warren (Capt.)
0.75 x 2.00 x 0.94

Walrus ivory Logbook Stamp, portraying a full-rigged ship under plain sail, for marking a shipboard logbook or journal when a ship is sighted or spoken at sea. Said to have been carved from walrus tusk ivory by Capt. Warren Holmes of Mystic, CT during one of his last voyages around Cape Horn. The attributed maker, Captain Joseph Warren Holmes, commanded a voyage in the bark LEANDER of Mystic, 1852-1854, and possibly a portion of an earlier voyage in the same vessel from 1845-1847. There is a journal or logbook of the 1845 voyage in MSM which should be searched to verify whether Holmes was captain or relief captain, and to see whether the stamp appears. Holmes may or may not have kept journals of his earlier voyages, however none are listed in Sherman.

UNIDENTIFIED ship
1936.36