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Auction House:
Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.
Number of lots recorded:96
Lots with images:96
Prices available:96
Category:
Scrimshaw
LotDescriptionPriceImage
*** A Colonial scrimshaw desk set comprising of two sperm whale teeth engraved with tallships standing on a baleen and timber base inlaid with mother of pearl and tortoiseshell and adorned with whale bone. The baleen back plate engraved with a fine… ***
*** Eden Twofold bay interest: a fine pair of scrimshaw whale's teeth pertaining to the Davidson family showing five generations with portrait ***
*** A large scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved with a tallship and inscription on reverse 'Tooth Of A Sperm Whale, 90 Foot Long, Caught By The Betsey, Capt. Peters, First South Sea.......1832', 22 cm high ***
*** A large scrimshaw whale's tooth with harbour scene, 21.5 cm high ***
*** 'Whaling in Twofold bay 1828-1930' scrimshaw whale's tooth depicting Eden's Twofold bay with whaling scene, signed 'Rene Davidson, Eden 13-12-2003', 18 cm high ***
*** Gary Tonkin (Albany, Western Australia) scrimshaw whale's tooth titled 'Blackfish, ready the Greenhand', signed 'G.R. Tonkin', 16 cm high ***
*** An impressive scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved with shipping route from England to Australia, on later wooden stand, tooth 22 cm high ***
*** An impressive scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved 'Ship Runnymede of Hobart Town. Capt. James Bayley. 5 Month Voyage - 500 tuns sperm. 1851'. The reverse engraved with whaling scene with ship in the background. 17 cm long ***
*** An impressive scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved 'Sperm Whales Off Japan. Boiling Sperm Whales. Success To Whalers, J. Nutbrown', 21 cm high ***
*** Two scrimshaw whale's teeth, 19th century, 14 cm high. Provenance: The Erik Dare Collection, Christie's, lot 229, 13th November 1995. ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved 'North Cape, New Zealand, 1839', reserve with American eagle and flag engraved 'Pluribus Anum', 21 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw pan bone plaque depicting English tall ships, 19th century, 15 cm x 23 cm ***
*** A pair of scrimshaw whale's teeth with hand coloured decoration as well as British and American flags. One engraved 'Peace, Liberty, Unity' and the other 'I love Thee Still' with Queen Victoria sypher and signed on reverse 'W. Kelly'. (2 items). 15 ***
*** An impressive scrimshaw whale's tooth with flag and whaling scene engraved 'Greasy Luck To Whalers Sperm Whaling Off Van Diemen's Land, 1841', 20 cm long ***
*** An antique scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved with two dancing African American slave figures, the reverse with courting couple scene, circa 1830s an impressive 18 cm high ***
*** long800 Gary Tonkin Australian scrimshaw whales tooth titled 'Dutch Galliot', Albany, Western Australian origin, 20th century 14 cm long ***
*** A pair of antique scrimshaw whale's teeth with engraved portraits, Tasmanian origin, 19th century, 10 cm and 10.5 cm high. Provenance: The Berry Collection, Young's Auctions, Melbourne, 2008 ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved with whaling ship and whaling scene, reverse engraved with shield and owner's initials 'H. K. 1870', 14.5 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved 'Cutty Sark, London, 1869' with ship portrait and romantic scene on reverse, later wooden stand, tooth 21 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved 'Whaling In Tasmanian Waters. Tooth Taken From Large Bull Sperm Whale 'Alfred', 1825', 19.5 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved 'The Sunbeam, 1856', 15 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved 'Charles W. Morgan, Launched 1841 New Bedford, Mass.', 19 cm long ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth finely carved with female portrait surrounded by ferns and roses with rope carved border, 19th century, 14 cm high ***
*** An antique scrimshaw walrus tusk with female and male portraits, 19th century 38 cm long ***
*** 'Old Tom and Friends' scrimshaw whale's tooth depicting the famous killer whale (orca) and the Boyd tower, signed 'Rene Davidson, Eden 17-7-2003', 12 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth titled 'Master Whaler, Twofold bay, George Davidson 1863-1952' depicting George holding a harpoon, signed 'Rene Davidson, Eden 21-5-2003' 17 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth with portrait of Matthew Flinders and map of Australia titled 'New Holland New South Wales, 1804', with portrait of trim the cat on the reverse, 12.5 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved 'Sperm Whaling In Tasmanian Waters, In Memory Of William C.J. Kirkwood Of Boston Mass. Who Fell From Aloft And Was Drowned In 25 Years Of His Age, Feb. 10. 1850', 16 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth with female portrait titled 'Hannah Young nee Adams, Pitcairner, The Bounty', 13 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved 'Cape Of Good Hope, September, 1855', reverse engraved 'Marianne, Sperm whale milled around Captain W.H. Lovitt and two seamen killed', 17 cm long ***
*** Two scrimshaw whale's teeth with ship portraits, 14 cm and 14.5 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth with deer hunting scene, an impressive 19 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved 'Whaleship Neptune, 1849. Stove Boat', 20 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth with tallship portrait, 19th century, an impressive 18 cm high ***
*** A pair of scrimshaw whale's teeth engraved with British tallships, 19th century, 14.5 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved 'Coast Of Madagascar, 1846', 17.5 cm long ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved 'Metacom, 1842', with sperm whaling scene, 16.5 cm long ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth adorned with a highland Scot in full regalia, 15.5 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw walrus tusk cribbage board with comparment end and markers, 19th century, 46 cm long ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth with whaling scene, the reverse with American eagle, 17.5 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth with tallship and whaling scene, 13.5 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth with engraved Australian coat of arms titled 'Australia', 14 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved 'Metacom, From New Bedford To The Pacific, 1842', 17 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved 'Portland Bay, Edward Henty', 14 cm high ***
*** Four scrimshaw whale's teeth with ship portraits, the tallest 8.5 cm high ***
*** An impressive scrimshaw whale's tooth adorned with image of Richard the lion heart on horseback in front of the Walls of Jerusalem, 18 cm high ***
*** James Cumberland brown (Albany, Western Australia) scrimshaw whale's tooth titled 'Nantucket sleigh Ride', signed 'J. F. C. Rms', 18.5 cm high ***
*** An impressive scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved with ship portrait and whaling scene, signed on both sides (illegible), 13 cm long ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved 'Metacom, Capt. Willm. Shockley, New Bedford - Mass. 1848', 14.5 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth with female portrait, 13 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth titled 'Sound Fast' with whaling scene, signed Tonkin, 20th century, 13.5 cm high ***
*** 'Hobart Town' scrimshaw whale jawbone adorned with scene of Salamanca, battery point, Tasmania, 47 cm long ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth with ship portrait and romantic scene verso, engraved 'Jane, My heart with Thee Will Stay When My ship sails Away', 13 cm high ***
*** Tabua scrimshaw whale's tooth, 19th century. An unusual combination of a Fijian chieftain's whale tooth pendant that has been souvenired by a sailor and decorated at some later point with biblical scene of Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. A rare example. 12 cm… ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth with ship portrait 'Fitzjames, 1902', signed Tonkin, 12 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth with tallship, 13 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth with sailor boy portrait, 13.5 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth with palm cockatoo and female portrait on reverse, Queensland origin, 12 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth titled 'Greasy Luck' with tallship scene, signed Tonkin, 20th century, 13 cm long ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth titled 'The sailor's Return', engraved with a tallship, sailor and American flag, 13 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved with tallship below an American eagle, with compass point on the reverse, 12 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth titled 'Going On' with whaling scene, signed Tonkin, 20th century, 14.5 cm long ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth with tallship and sailor portrait, 13 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth with whaling scenes, 12.5 cm high ***
*** A pair of antique scrimshaw cow horns, 19th century. With accompanying note 'John Menzies, Porter Hill, Maldon. Workman on property' 41 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved with a woman and child, adorned with and urn and floral spray on the reverse, 13 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth titled 'Female Pirate', 13.5 cm high ***
*** Two scrimshaw whale's teeth with remains of engraving, 16 cm and 17 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved with an urn flanked by a Captain and his wife, 14 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved with a whaling scene, 13 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved with tallship and romantic couple with Scottish thistle on the reverse, 12 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth adorned with tallship in tropical setting, 17.5 cm high ***
*** Gary Tonkin scrimshaw whale's tooth titled 'The Wanderer, 1878', signed G. Tonkin, 20th century, 12.5 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth with silver mount and stand, 20th century in graved '8.11.1979' stamped 'HF 925' 14 cm long ***
*** A scrimshaw powder horn with whaling scene engraved 'Sperm Whaling, So Be Cheery My Lads, Let Your Hearts Never Fail, While The Bold Harpooner Is A-striking The Whale', 24.5 cm long ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved 'Whaler and Master Mariner, Captain William Dutton, 1828 - 1868', 17 cm long ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth adorned with sailor, tallship and a female portrait on reverse, 14.5 cm high ***
*** Gary Tonkin scrimshaw whale's tooth titled 'Nigero, 1840', signed 'Tonkin', 12 cm high ***
*** An antique scrimshaw powder horn engraved with hunting scenes and limerick, 18th/19th century, 40 cm long ***
*** A scrimshaw whalebone busk, 19th century engraved with an American flag aloft a flensing blade 37.5 x 4.5 cm ***
*** A scrimshaw whales tooth with pirate ship, 15 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved with tallship and animals, engraved 'Tortue', 'Aigle', and 'Caiamant', 14 cm long ***
*** A scrimshaw whalebone busk, engraved and decorated with coloured ink, 19th century 34.5 x 3.5 cm ***
*** Three scrimshaw whale's teeth with portrait views of ships and sailors, the tallest 10 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved 'Julia, 2 Aug. 1863', 15 cm long ***
*** Four vintage scrimshaw whale teeth depicting clippers and tallships, 20th century signed 'J. F. C.' the largest 12 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved with Jacobite solider, 14 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth with tallship portrait titled 'Liberty Love', signed with scrimshander's monogram mark, 13 cm high ***
*** A whaler's knife with scrimshaw handle, 19th century, 34 cm long ***
*** Three scrimshaw whale's teeth with ship scene, anchor and sperm whale scene, 9 cm long ***
*** A vintage scrimshaw whale's tooth with tall ship portrait, engraved on reverse 'Mistress of the Seas', by James Cumberland brown of Albany, Western Australia, signed 'J. F. C.', 13 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth with whaling scene, 14 cm high ***
*** James Cumberland brown (Albany, Western Australia) scrimshaw whale's tooth titled 'Splicing the Foreganger to the Harpoon', signed 'J. F. C. Rms', 12.5 cm high ***
*** A scrimshaw powder horn with lion and coat of arms, 19th century, 30 cm long ***
*** Gary Tonkin 'The Flurry' scrimshaw whale's tooth, Albany Western Australian, 11.5 cm long ***
*** A scrimshaw whale's tooth with female portrait, 12.5 cm high ***