19C. RARE BARK JOHN & WINTHROP CARVEDWHALE TOOTH United States,1880A very stout whales tooth carved with an elaborate landscape depicting ships in a harbor with a bustling city (Most likely San Francisco) full...
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ANDREW JACKSON (1767-1845): ORIGINALSHIP'S PASSPORT FOR THE WHALESHIP COMMODORE ROGERSSigned by President Andrew Jackson. Printed ship's passport for the whaleship Commodore Rogers , finished in a secretarial...
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CONFEDERATE CSS SHENANDOAH DIARY ANDARCHIVEImportant 1865 Confederate CSS Shenandoah ship diary archive of Lieutenant Dabney Scales including 1865 diary journal (85 pages, 104 pages total), an ambrotype and...
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EARL E. COLLINS O/C MARINE PAINTING,CHARLES W. MORGANEarl Edward Collins (Connecticut/New York, 1925-1992) oil on canvas maritime painting "Charles W. Morgan" depicting the whaling ship named for owner Charles...
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REGINALD NICKERSON O/C PAINTING OF WHALINGSHIP, THE BA...Reginald Eugene Nickerson (American/Massachusetts, 1915-1999) oil on canvas maritime painting depicting the ship "Whaling Bark Wanderer" at sea with full sails,...
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HAND DRAWN SHIP'S CHART OF A WHALINGVOYAGE OF THE SHIP...Hand Drawn Ship's Chart of a Whaling Voyage of the Ship Niger to the South Atlantic, 1878-1882 , and possibly the coast of Africa and Indian Ocean, under...
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FRAMED 19TH C. AMERICAN INK & GOUACHEOF WHALE HUNTERSUnited States, New England, ca. mid 19th century. A dramatic rendering of a whale hunt delineated in ink and gouache on paper with the word "WHALING" below....
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EARLY 20TH C. KWAKWAKA'WAKW WOOD FEASTBOWL WHALESNative American, Pacific Northwest, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) people, ca. early 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden feast bowl of an enormous size with an ovoid...
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19TH C. TONGAN WOOD & WHALE IVORY KALIHAHAPO HEADRESTOceania, Polynesia, Tonga, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A lovely hand carved wooden and whale tooth inlay headrest known as a kali heap or a kali...
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ELEVEN 19TH C HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTSRELATEDTO WHALING AND THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY IN NEW BEDFORD AND MASSACHUSETTS. ONE IS FRAMED. FIRST IS A JULY 3, 1877 MANUSCRIPT LIST OF WHALES SEEN AND TAKEN BY THE WHALING...
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POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TOOTH BYEDWARD BURDETT CIRCA 1830-1833 LENGTH 6.25". INCLUDES STAND. EDWARD BURDETT, Circa 1830-1833, Signed on edge "Engraved. By. Edward Burdett.". Obverse titled "Wm. Tell. of....
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SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TOOTH WITH CLIPPERSHIP AND WHALING SCENES MID-19TH CENTURY LENGTH 6". INCLUDES WOODEN STAND. HEIGHT ON STAND 7.75". SHIP AND WHALING SCENES, Mid-19th Century, Obverse depicts a clipper ship...
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EXCEPTIONAL SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TOOTHBY THE VIGNETTE ARTIST MID-19TH CENTURY LENGTH 6.75". BY THE VIGNETTE ARTIST, Mid-19th Century, A wide tooth providing a sizable canvas. Obverse depicts a whaling scene...
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BOLDLY POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE'STOOTH DEPICTING THE WHALESHIP "HECTOR" MID-19TH CENTURY LENGTH 7.75". WITH WOODEN STAND. TOOTH DEPICTING THE WHALESHIP "HECTOR", Mid-19th Century, Obverse depicts a whaling...
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POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TOOTH BYTHE BANKNOTE ENGRAVER, DESCENDED IN THE FAMILY OF WHALEMAN WILLARD BROWN MID-19TH CENTURY LENGTH 5.75". THE BANKNOTE ENGRAVER, DESCENDED IN THE FAMILY OF WHALEMAN WILLARD...
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* ENGRAVED SECTION OF WHALEBONE DEPICTINGWHALING SCENES LENGTH 19.5". WHALING SCENES, One side depicts a whaleship and six whaleboats in pursuit of a pod of six whales. Crude rendering of a sun face above the pod...
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SIGNED AND DATED SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TOOTHPERTAINING TO THE SHIP "NORTHERN LIGHT" DATED 1861 LENGTH 6.75". PERTAINING TO THE SHIP "NORTHERN LIGHT", Dated 1861, Obverse depicts a full-rigged ship flying an American...
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PAIR OF EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND HISTORICALLYSIGNIFICANT SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TEETH BY JOSIAH SHEFFIELD, JR., KNOWN AS THE "LOG TEETH" CIRCA 1831-1835 LENGTHS 6" AND 6.25". INCLUDES STANDS. SIGNIFICANT SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S...
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SCRIMSHAW WHALEBONE BUSK BY JOSIAH SHEFFIELD,JR. CIRCA 1830 LENGTH 13". JR., Circa 1830, Depicts a whaling scene of three ships, decreasing in size from left to right, and two six-man whaleboats in pursuit of a large...
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POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TOOTH ATTRIBUTEDTO MOSES DENNING, KNOWN AS "THE STARK TOOTH" FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY LENGTH 8". INCLUDES STAND. TO MOSES DENNING, KNOWN AS "THE STARK TOOTH", First Half of the 19th...
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TWENTY-ONE PUBLICATIONS ON WHALING,SCRIMSHAW AND PRISONER-OF-WAR ARTIFACTS SCRIMSHAW AND PRISONER-OF-WAR ARTIFACTS, Sizes, bindings and conditions vary. Most illustrated. Includes: 1) A Treasury of American...
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* CONTEMPORARY POLYCHROME ENGRAVED WHALE'STOOTH IN THE MANNER OF EDWARD BURDETT 20TH CENTURY LENGTH 7.25". TOOTH IN THE MANNER OF EDWARD BURDETT, 20th Century, By J.R. Laubin. Obverse depicts a whaling scene with...
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"WHALING SCENE" DIORAMA, WITH WHALETALE BREAKING THROUGH WAVES AT RIGHT AND HARPOON CREW IN BOAT TO THE LEFT, SIX MEN IN SMALL BOAT..."Whaling Scene" diorama, with whale tale breaking through waves at right...
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THREE SCRIMSHAW DECORATED SPERM WHALETEETH, FEATURING A MAN, WOMAN, AND WHALING SCENE WITH BOAT AND MANY WHALES WITH ACCENTS OF RED...Three scrimshaw decorated sperm whale teeth, featuring a man, woman, and whaling...
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RARE WHALING PRINT BY BENJAMIN RUSSELL(MA, 1804-1885) "Right Whaling in the Behring Sea and It's Varieties", 1897, hand colored lithograph after the painting by Russell, text across bottom of lithograph reads...
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FIVE SIGNED SCRIMSHAW TEETH INCLD. RASHIDIFive signed scrimshaw teeth by various artists comprising, a whale's tooth by James W. Lee depicting a busy wharf filled with ships including the A. E. Whyland of New Bedford,...
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3PCS SIGNED SCRIMSHAW INCLD. SALMANRASHIDI Three pieces of signed scrimshaw, comprising a Salman Rashidi (American active late 20th century), whale tooth depicting an Inuit hunting party with their canoe in...
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EXCEPTIONAL PAIR OF SCRIMSHAW WHALE'STEETH, LIKELY BY A SAILOR ABOARD THE H.M.S. "IRIS" CIRCA 1855 LENGTHS 7". INCLUDE WOODEN STANDS. TEETH, LIKELY BY A SAILOR ABOARD THE H.M.S. "IRIS", Circa 1855, Superb and...
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IMPORTANT CASED MODEL OF THE AMERICANWHALESHIP "JAMES ARNOLD" CIRCA 1935 CASE HEIGHT 26". LENGTH 31.5". WIDTH 8.25". WHALESHIP "JAMES ARNOLD", Circa 1935, By renowned Boston ship model builder Peter Ness (1890-1976)....
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+SCRIMSHAW: THREE DECORATED WHALES TEETH,INCLUDING: ONE WITH WHALING THEMED TUSK WITH DEPICTIONS OF SHIPS OF VARIOUS SIZES, A WHALE BEING HUNTED, AND A COASTAL ROCK FORMATION WITH THE GRAND UNION FLAG, TOOTH HAS...
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JOURNAL OF A WHALING VOYAGE TO THE PACIFICOCEANON BOARD THE "ELIZA L. B. JENNEY" OF FAIRHAVEN, JOHN CHURCH, MASTER, 1842. THE LOG COVERS FROM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1842 THROUGH MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1846 AND WAS PROBABLY...
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WHALING JOURNAL TO THE PACIFIC ON BOARDTHEWHALESHIP "GOOD RETURN II" OF NEW BEDFORD, DATED MAY 30TH, 1839. 243 HANDWRITTEN PAGES WITH NUMEROUS WHALE STAMPS. THE JOURNAL WAS KEPT BY CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH TABER WHOSE...
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2 LATE 20TH C SCRIMSHAW WHALES TEETHBY NEWBEDFORD SCRIMSHAW ARTIST ROBERTA DUTRA. ONE DEPICTS 3 MEN MEASURING WHALE OIL IN BARRELS, 5 3/4", GOOD CONDITION. THE OTHER DEPICTS 6 MEN IN A WHALE BOAT HARPOONING...
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RARE 16 PAGE WHALING MANUSCRIPT, 1834,extensivelydetailed. Instructions for Captain John Egbert Howell (1813-1840) of the whaling ship Telegraph, Sag Harbor, New York, bound for the Pacific. Signed by his brothers, agents/owners...
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RARE WHALING PRINT BY BENJAMIN RUSSELL(MA, 1804-1885) "Right Whaling in the Behring Sea and It's Varieties", 1897, hand colored lithograph after the painting by Russell, text across bottom of lithograph reads...
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1834-1838 Whaling Ledger of Ship GovernorFenner 13 x 8 in. hardcover accounting ledger for the whaling ship Governor Fenner of Bristol Rhode Island; Alexander Swain II Captain. Built in 1827 the Governor Fenner was...
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