4006

19th Century

FINE POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALEBONE BUSK

Depicts red flowers, a potted flowering plant, a bird in a tree, two whaling scenes and two dolphins, the images separated by geometric borders. One whaling scene depicts a whaleboat fast to a right whale and the other depicts three sperm whales. Rich, bold coloring.
Length 13".
Condition: No visible damages.
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  • Provenance:
    E. Norman Flayderman.
    Private Rhode Island Collection.

    Illustrated:
    Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen by E. Norman Flayderman (New Milford, Ct.: N. Flayderman & Co., Inc., 1972), p. 164. Flayderman remarks it is "a remarkable example of a fully colored tinted whalebone busk representative of the highest development of the art of scrimshaw".

    Notes:
    By the same hand as a tooth sold at Eldred's, The Marine Sale, July 22, 2011, Lot #622.

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August 10, 2023 9:30 AM EDT
East Dennis, MA, US

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