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Scrimshaw tooth, figure of a girl

tooth

SCRIMSHAW & ALLIED ARTS - TEETH
marad; scrimshaw
Overall: 5 3/4 x 2 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.

Whale tooth. Etched image of a young girl about to tie a ribbon into her hair, wearing a dress with bows and ruffles, standing on a tiled floor. Image after "Graham's Magazine," November 1852, which is in turn slightly revised from an engraving in "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," December 1851.


1939.1750