A PAIR OF 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR'S SCRIMSHAW DECORATED WHALE'S TEETH
worked over all sides with apparently unconnected subjects comprising a Knight and song bird; and ?Lord Byron and a reclining savage, both mounted teeth on wooden plinths, the teeth -- 4½in. (11.5cm.) high
(2, a pair)

Condition Report
Knight/Bird: small crack near tip, two/three small losses around root; Byron/Savage: ¾in. cracks on opposite sides of root.

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