Catalogue
Buffalo horns, USA, 19th century, intricately engraved with military and domestic figures including William of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne 1690, General Gordon and a victorious American eagle, (620mm wide); another, uncarved, (710mm wide). Very fine. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Scrimshaw, Africa, 19th century, boar tusks, the first carved with the image of a boar and the description ".577 Snider / 1869", the other engraved with a prowling leopard, (170mm and 185mm long). Very fine. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $220
Scrimshaw, Africa, 20th century, boar tusks carved and engraved with images of elephant processions, (155mm long), mounted on brass or timber bases. Very fine. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $120
Scrimshaw, 19th century, walrus tusk carved as a page turner, engraved with a scene of a ship and walrus on ice, "Tusk Taken From a Walrus / Lancaster Sound / Ship Maud / 1889". Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $500
Scrimshaw, North America, early 20th century, tusk boxes depicting a resting seal, the other a fox stalking birds, also a panel depicting a whale destroying a boat, (150mm - 170mm long). Very fine. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $190
Scrimshaw, 19th century, North America, bone or tusk pieces depicting a man observing a ship with a telescope, a ship under full sail and a whaling scene, (110mm - 135mm long). Very fine. (3)
Estimate $120
SOLD $200
Scrimshaw, 19th and 20th centuries, four examples depicting a whale, an island scene, flying geese and whaling implements, (115mm, 100mm, 100mm, 95mm long). Very fine. (4)
Estimate $150
SOLD $340
Scrimshaw, 20th century, two examples, the first engraved with the ship "The Wanderer 1878", the second ship "Niger 1844", (130mm and 115mm long). Very fine. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $750
Scrimshaw, 20th century, three examples depicting ships under sail, one named "Whaling Barque 1850", (115mm, 110mm and 100mm long). Very fine. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $260
Scrimshaw, late 19th - early 20th century, three examples depicting mermaids, (120mm, 110mm and 110mm long). Very fine. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $380
Scrimshaw, 20th century, seven examples depicting ships and whaling scenes, (85mm - 100mm long). Very fine. (7)
Estimate $200
SOLD $260
Scrimshaw, 20th century, tooth halved and engraved with ships under sail, desk mounted on a wooden base, (200mm high); tusk, engraved with Chinese rural scenes, (335mm long), mounted on custom wooden base. Very fine. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $220
Scrimshaw, 19th century, engraved with a fine image of Hannah Young on Pitcairn Island, the reverse showing The Bounty in full sail, below a family tree of Hannah Young - "Father - John Adams / Mother - Vahineatua / Born Pitcairn 1799 / Died 27th August 1864", (135mm long). Very fine and a rare piece of Bounty mutiny related scrimshaw.
Estimate $200
SOLD $1,000
Scrimshaw, 20th century, three examples, the first depicting "H M Bark Endeavour" under sail, the second a rigging scene and the third a whaler under sail, (100mm, 120mm and 130mm long). Very fine. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $240
Scrimshaw, 19th century, sperm whale tooth engraved with the whaling ship Ann Alexander under sail, the name "Ann Alexander 1839" above, American eagle to right, (130mm long). Very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $420
Scrimshaw, 20th century, two examples, the first engraved with a ship under sail "Morning Star 1853", the second a whaling ship "James Arnold 1852", (130mm and 125mm long). Very fine. (2)
Estimate $200
SOLD $850
Scrimshaw, 19th century, sperm whale tooth engraved with an image of the whaling ship "Charles W. Morgan", engraved on reverse - New Bedford Mass, (115mm long). Very fine and of historical interest.
Estimate $200
SOLD $750
Scrimshaw, 19th century, sperm whale tooth, engraved with a map of Ocracoke Inlet, Outer Banks, North Carolina, USA, map of the inlet with place names, "Ocracoke Inlet" to right, on reverse an engraving of a 17th century Pirate, (135mm long). Very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $500
Scrimshaw, 19th century, sperm whale tooth, engraved with a portrait of General Robert E. Lee, the reverse depicting him on horseback, "Lee on Traveler (sic)", (120mm long). Very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $480
Scrimshaw, 19th century, tusk intricately carved with a cartography scene, "Terra Australis", original map dated 1570 with ships and sea creatures, with Victorian plated metal mount, (440mm long). Very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $1,700
Scrimshaw, 20th century, two examples, the first a ship removing blubber "Cutting In", the second "The Whalers", (180mm and 165mm long). Very fine. (2)
Estimate $200
SOLD $650
Scrimshaw, 20th century, two examples, the first engraved with a ship under full sail, the second depicting a whaling scene and a ship under sail, (150mm and 160mm long). Very fine. (2)
Estimate $200
SOLD $550
Scrimshaw, 20th century, two pieces, the first engraved with a whaling scene and ship under sail, the other depicting a pirate and three swords crossed, (115mm and 120mm long). Very fine. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $200
Scrimshaw, early 20th century, engraved with whales, the first depicting a Humpback whale, the second a Southern Right whale, a Humpback whale, A Sei Whale and a Sperm whale, (150mm and 130mm long). Very fine. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $360
Scrimshaw, 19th century, sperm whale tooth, engraved with a whaling ship under sail, (160mm long). Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $340
Scrimshaw, 19th century, sperm whale tooth, engraved with a whaling ship under full sail, the reverse engraved "Taken From a Dead Whale By L.B.Morse 1850", (140mm long). Very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $1,400
Scrimshaw, 19th century, two examples depicting ships under sail, (115mm and 105mm long). Very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $340
Scrimshaw, 19th century, three examples, the first depicting a whale "Hobart Town 1877", the second an Orca and the third 5 examples of ships, (130mm, 100mm and 95mm long). Very fine. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $550
Scrimshaw, 19th cetury, three examples, the first depicting an 18th century Captain, the second a whale destroying a boat and the third two crewmen, (120mm, 130mm and 110mm long). Very fine. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $440
Scrimshaw, 20th century, two examples, both depicting ships under sail, "Viola 1920" and "Niger 1844", (165mm and 155mm long). Very fine. (2)
Estimate $200
SOLD $400