A Rare and Large Sailors Scrimshaw Pan-Bone Plaque Engraved with Two Maritime Whaling Scenes
A Rare and Large Sailors Scrimshaw Pan-Bone Plaque Engraved with Two Maritime Whaling Scenes of a Full Rigged Whaling Ship, a whaleboat with a full crew rowing in choppy waters, another scene close to the shoreline, depicting a hill fort on the escarpment
The delicately engraved sky with unusual cloud formations and a crescent moon
Unusually divided into two halves, replicating an ‘open’ book. The whole within a border of anchors, crossed swords, entwined hearts, foliage and canons
Old mellow colour with fine patina, an old horizontal break showing a Victorian repair to the reverse
Anglo-American
Early 19th Century
SIZE: 17cm high, 41cm wide - 6¾ ins high, 16 ins wide
The delicately engraved sky with unusual cloud formations and a crescent moon
Unusually divided into two halves, replicating an ‘open’ book. The whole within a border of anchors, crossed swords, entwined hearts, foliage and canons
Old mellow colour with fine patina, an old horizontal break showing a Victorian repair to the reverse
Anglo-American
Early 19th Century
SIZE: 17cm high, 41cm wide - 6¾ ins high, 16 ins wide
A Rare and Large Sailors Scrimshaw Pan-Bone Plaque Engraved with Two Maritime Whaling Scenes of a Full Rigged Whaling Ship, a whaleboat with a full crew rowing in choppy waters, another scene close to the shoreline, depicting a hill fort on the escarpment
The delicately engraved sky with unusual cloud formations and a crescent moon
Unusually divided into two halves, replicating an ‘open’ book. The whole within a border of anchors, crossed swords, entwined hearts, foliage and canons
Old mellow colour with fine patina, an old horizontal break showing a Victorian repair to the reverse
Anglo-American
Early 19th Century
SIZE: 17cm high, 41cm wide - 6¾ ins high, 16 ins wide
The delicately engraved sky with unusual cloud formations and a crescent moon
Unusually divided into two halves, replicating an ‘open’ book. The whole within a border of anchors, crossed swords, entwined hearts, foliage and canons
Old mellow colour with fine patina, an old horizontal break showing a Victorian repair to the reverse
Anglo-American
Early 19th Century
SIZE: 17cm high, 41cm wide - 6¾ ins high, 16 ins wide
Ex Private English collection
SEE: For two other large pan-bone scrimshaw plaques Finch and Co item no. 3, catalogue number 25, Winter 2015 and item no. 12, catalogue number 37, Winter 2021
SEE: For two other large pan-bone scrimshaw plaques Finch and Co item no. 3, catalogue number 25, Winter 2015 and item no. 12, catalogue number 37, Winter 2021
A Rare and Large Sailors Scrimshaw Pan-Bone Plaque Engraved with Two Maritime Whaling Scenes
