Object Description
A Rare and Unusual Pair of Matched Sailors Scrimshaw Sperm Whale Teeth Engraved with Whaling Panoramas Ships Under Plain Sail and with Sails Furled a Whale Hung Up for Flensing others Harpooned and Attached to Small Boats
One entitled ‘Kent Whaleing off Horta’
Probably depicting the Whaling Ship ‘Kent’ out of Dover built in 1811 that completed ten voyages from 1820 to 1853 for British Southern Whaling
Circa 1830 – 1850
Sizes: 7cm high, 17.5cm wide, 5cm deep – 2¾ ins high, 7 ins wide, 2 ins deep
7cm high, 17.5cm wide, 4.5cm deep – 2¾ ins high, 7 ins wide, 1¾ ins deep