- 2 1/2 PAGE HANDWRITTEN LETTER 8" BY
10", SIGNEDby Goddard London, dated November 9, 1849. Lemuel Goddard was an American sperm oil merchant in England and a partner to New Bedford shipowners Swift and Allen...
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and wooden shaft, approx 66cm L x 5cm Dia...
[more like this] - INUIT BONE CARVING WOMAN WHALER WITH
HARPOONHand carved bone figure of "Mnaoi" or woman with harpoon in hand.
Issued: 20th Century
Dimensions: 3.75"L x 2"W x 11.5"H
Country of Origin: Alaska, United States
Condition:...
[more like this] - PAUL MCCARTHY HAND CARVED FULLY BODY
SPERM WHALE HANGIN...Paul McCarthy Hand Carved Fully Body Sperm Whale Hanging Trade Sign, each piece with inscribed signature, "McCarthy" , the whale with fully body construction...
[more like this] - 19TH C. INUIT BONE HARPOON + 2 WOOD
CARVINGS**Originally Listed At $200**
Native American, Northwestern United States, Alaska, Inuit, ca. 19th to mid-20th century CE. This is a fine collection of 3 hand-made...
[more like this] - PRE-CONTACT THULE PUNUK BONE OR ANTLER
HARPOON TIPNative American, North America, Pacific Northwest Coast, Alaska, Pre-Contact Thule, Punuk stage, ca. 800 to 1400 CE. A hand carved marine animal bone or caribou...
[more like this] - ANCIENT ALASKAN BERING SEA BONE OR ANTLER
HARPOON TIPNative American, Northwestern United States, Alaska, Beringian / Old Bering Sea Culture, ca. 200 BCE to 1000 CE. A hand carved marine animal bone or caribou antler...
[more like this] - EARLY INUIT SOAPSTONE CARVING OF A HUNTERCarved
Eskimo hunter or fisherman, missing his left arm at about the elbow (an old injury), measuring nearly 10" high. Green soapstone. Classic period, likely about 1950 or so. Some...
[more like this] - GORDON GRANT WHALE HUNT LITHOGRAPH New
York, California, United Kingdom,1875-1962Titled "The Whale Hunt," depicts groups of men in row boats leaving the main ship with harpoons in hand....
[more like this] - MICHAEL LUIZ CARVED SWORDFISH BILL SCRIMSHAW
Michael Luiz, (American, 20th Century). A hand carved swordfish bill decorated with a lighthouse, two maritime ships, a compass, grouping of whales and a harpoon. Signed...
[more like this] - WALTIERE WHALING PRINT GERMAN, 1886
HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPH, 11.5" X 16.5" SIGHT. FRAMED 22" X 25".WALTIERE WHALING PRINT, German, 1886, Taken from Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's Natural History (Naturgeschichte),...
[more like this] - EXCEPTIONAL SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TOOTH
BY 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...
[more like this] - HAND-COLORED ENGRAVING "BALAENARUM WALFISCHE"
CIRCA 1760 PLATE AREA 23.5" X 20.5". 21.5" X 24.75" SIGHT. FRAMED 28.25" X 31.5"., Circa 1760, After Johann Baptist Homann (German, 1663-1724). From the Atlas Novus Terrarum...
[more like this] - SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TOOTH ATTRIBUTED TO
THE ARCH ENGRAVER MID-19TH CENTURY LENGTH 9.25". THE ARCH ENGRAVER, Mid-19th Century, Obverse depicts a ship under sail, flying a long pennant from the mainmast and a large...
[more like this] - (5) EARLY IRON WHALING TOOLS All Hand-Forged,
including a Trident Head, 19 3/4" x 13"; Rigid Barb Harpoon Head from round stock, 24" long; Small Harpoon Head with toggled barb, 14" long; Spade Tipped Harpoon Head, 12...
[more like this] - IMPORTANT CASED MODEL OF THE AMERICAN
WHALESHIP "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)....
[more like this] - Brass taffrail log, "Hand Nantucket
Harpoon Log", in solid brass with pitting, (2) gauges lacking hands, 18-1/2"L...
[more like this] - (5) EARLY WHALING TOOLS 18thc. Forged
Iron Harpoon Blade, flat-backed, thick leaf shaped blade with tapered square stem, 21" long, 3 1/4" wide blade, corroded. PLUS Ca. 1900 Flensing or Whale Blubber Knife with...
[more like this] - PR DANIEL FRENCH FOR JENNINGS BROTHERS
BOOKENDS Massachusetts, New York,1850-1931Pair of New Bedford Whaling Monument bookends depicting whalers with harpoons in their hands with the inscription "A Dead Whale or...
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