Scrimshaw tooth depicting a boy, girl and dog

tooth

SCRIMSHAW & ALLIED ARTS - TEETH
marad; scrimshaw
Finney, Nathaniel Sylvester
USA, CT, New London
after April, 1840
6.00 x 2.75 x 0

Scrimshaw tooth attributed by Stuart M. Frank, Ph.D., Scrimshaw Forensics, to Nathaniel S. Finney; the image sourced from April, 1840, issue of the "New York Starter [sic] and Parlour Companion" (that image presumed copied from a lithograph, "The Three Friends," published by E.B. & E.C. Kellogg, Hartford, CT), depicting, in a pastoral setting, a seated boy and girl with a large dog laying across their laps between them; on the reverse, an elaborate garden urn with flowers and foliage, expertly drawn; narrow border surrounds entire bottom edge.

1941.421