An Unusually Large Scrimshaw Tooth Depicting A Seaport

An Unusually Large Scrimshaw Tooth Depicting A Seaport
Mid 19th Century
depicting an unidentified port-of-call, featuring a huddle of buildings, one flying an American flag, two distinctive church towers surmounted with crosses, a long, peninsular finger of land bordering the harbor, a full-rigged ship evidently at anchor, and a two-masted schooner underway, with an unadorned figure of Columbia standing over the scene, holding an American flag, the back polished but undecorated.
Length 9 inches.

Hindman is grateful to Stuart Frank, Senior Curator Emeritus of the New Bedford Whaling Museum for his assistance in the cataloging of the scrimshaw offered in this auction.

Property from the Collection of Dr. James Dawson, Manchester, Kentucky
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