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The Marine Sale

October 15, 2016

Lot #40
DepartmentScrimshaw
Sold For$150,000.00(hammer price)
 $180,000.00(price including buyer's premium)
Last UpdatedOctober 15, 2016

Description

SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TOOTH BY W.L. RODERICK Mid-19th Century
Titled In Shore Whaling The Death" along bottom edge. Depicts a finely detailed whaling scene with a whaleship, four whaleboats and a distant island. A sperm whale with stoved whaleboat at left. A sperm whale flanked by two whaleboats, one of which is throwing a killing lance, at right. Whaleboat off the ship's bow is chasing a pod of four sperm whales. Inscribed at tip "The Tooth of a Sperm Whale Captured March 30th 1855". Scene signed lower right "W.L. Roderick". Length 8.25".
Work of this quality, especially signed examples, rarely comes to market and is highly collectible.

Note: Figure 39 in Through the Eyes of a Collector by Nina Hellman (2015).
Provenance: The Thomas Mittler Scrimshaw Collection."

Condition

Shallow worn chip at reverse side of tip.

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