Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - Day 2 - 30 Jun 2022
A SPERM WHALE TOOTH WITH SCRIMSHAW DECORATION
A SPERM WHALE TOOTH WITH SCRIMSHAW DECORATION
19TH CENTURY
carved with a mother and two children to one side and a mother and a young child on her lap to verso
15.3cm long
Provenance
The collection of Vice-Admiral Reginald Vesey Holt, C.B., D.S.O., M.V.O. (1884-1957), and thence by descent.