Rafael Osona's Annual Auction Catalog 2019 2016 | Page 124
454. AMERICAN SAILOR
SCRIMSHANDED SPERM
WHALE TOOTH, 19th century,
engraved and inked in red and black
with an energetic whaling scene that
includes a man overboard, pursued
by a whale and the American flag
flying in the breeze, verso decorated
with flamboyantly blossoming rose
tree planted atop an altar of love.
Length 6 ¼ in.
455. SAILOR
SCRIMSHANDED SPERM
WHALE TOOTH WITH
PORTRAIT OF SIR FRANCIS
DRAKE, 19th century, stipple
engraved title below incised and
inked bust-length likeness of the
celebrated Elizabethan navigator.
Length 7 ¼ in.
456. SAILOR
SCRIMSHANDED MEMORIAL
SPERM WHALE TOOTH, 19th
century, engraved and richly inked
with a willow tree enveloping an urn
topped monument inscribed “Mary
Anne”, the verso depicts a young
woman reading to a child.
Length 7 in.
457. SAILOR
SCRIMSHANDED SPERM
WHALE TOOTH, 19th century,
stipple engraved and inked with
a classically attired female figure
emblematic of Truth, holding a
mirror and lamp and crowned with a
diadem. Height 6 ¾ in.
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