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Three-Piece Collection of Scrimshaw Items,

Three-Piece Collection of Scrimshaw Items, consisting of an attractive scrimshaw-handled Sheffield steel letter knife, the handle in the form of a whale, presented on a custom elliptical mahogany display stand, l. 8"; a diminutive carved whale ivory group of a whale and her calf, also presented on a similar custom-crafted wooden display stand, l. 4-1/2"; and a small scrimshaw plaque of carved fossilized mammoth ivory featuring a whale and a calf, h. 1-3/8", w. 1-1/3".

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