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1. americanhistory.si.edu › collections › nmah_843950Scrimshaw Sperm Whale Tooth, 1835 - National Museum of American...

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   One of the largest sperm whale teeth in the American History Museum’s collection, this huge example measures 8-1/2 inches long. One entire side is taken up by the horizontal inscription “TAKEN BY THE SHIP/ MONTREAL OF LONDON/IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN FROM/A ONE HUNDRED BARREL/ WHALE”.

2. americanhistory.si.edu › collections › object| National Museum of American History

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   This is an example of a whales tooth prepared for the art of scrimshaw. When a tooth is removed from the lower jaw of a sperm whale, its surface is rough and discolored, with ridges of varying depth along its lengtht.

3. americanhistory.si.edu › collections › nmah_844366Scrimshaw Sperm Whale Tooth, 1867 - National Museum of American...

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   The obverse of this large, flat sperm whale tooth is etched with a large, full-rigged ship with all sails set, driving from left to right towards the viewer. The yards or horizontal spars are deeply pinpricked, but the rest of the ship was carved freehand.

4. museumblog.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk › 2020/05/11 › etched-in-history-scrimshaw-from-theEtched in History: Scrimshaw from the H.M.S. Beagle

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   11 maj 2020 · By the eighteenth century, scrimshaw became popular amongst sailors from Europe and America to occupy the idle moments at sea. Bute’s piece of scrimshaw comes from a Sperm Whale (Physeter Macrocephalus), which was hunted to near extinction due to the lucrative sale of whale oil during the period.

5. imagequestmarine.com › asset › 20163Historic Scrimshaw - Sperm Whale Tooth - Image Quest Marine

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   Historic Scrimshaw - Sperm Whale Tooth

6. www.si.edu › object › scrimshaw-sperm-whale-tooth-mid-19th-century:nmah_310559Scrimshaw Sperm Whale Tooth, mid 19th Century

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   This elegant tooth could serve as a primer or pictorial dictionary on the different types of sailing ship rigs. Spread out over its surface are a fully rigged three-masted ship; a topsail brig; a hermaphrodite brig; a two-masted schooner; a cutter; a yawl; a barque; and a brigantine.

7. www.si.edu › object › scrimshaw-sperm-whales-tooth:nmah_310562Scrimshaw Sperm Whale’s Tooth - Smithsonian Institution

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   A 20-gun American sailing warship covers the upper portion of one side of this intricately detailed scrimshaw sperm whale tooth. Nearly every sail is set; flags are flying; and every gun port is open with its gun out and ready for action.