IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The obverse of this tooth has an ...

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First of all, to answer today’s question in the simplest of terms, this appears to be a sperm whale’s tooth. It looks like it may be a real one and not one of those plastic or composition fakes we see ...

Q: What is the value of and how do we sell a piece of Confederate scrimshaw on whale's tooth? It has a scrimshaw picture of the Confederate warship "Alabama." Also, a rare ivory-walrus-tusk cribbage ...

The Cahoon Museum of American Art on Cape Cod has been diving into the history of scrimshaw. Don't know what that is? Well, you're not alone. This largely forgotten folk art form — created by whalemen ...

A Massachusetts antique dealer has been indicted by the Justice Department for illegally importing sperm whale teeth. (We didn’t know this was a hot black market commodity, but then again, there’s a ...

Intricately carved designs fill most of the galleries at the Cahoon Museum of American Art in Cotuit as the major new exhibition “Scrimshaw: The Whaler’s Art” displays more than 250 pieces loaned from ...

LEXINGTON – A collection of engraved and carved whale teeth and bones – scrimshaw – is now on display in the Kohen Gallery on the 100 level of the Virginia Military Institute Museum. Received by the ...

Scrimshaw artist Brian Kiracofe on the art of engraving on ivory and bone. Scrimshaw dates back to the late 17th century when whalers who were out on a long voyage would engrave on ivory and bone ...

Dolphin skull covered in scrimshaw of ships, foliage, a butterfly, and flags, from 1750-1850. (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) 19th century whalers could be at sea for years, and for ...

An Oak Harbor, Wash., man who used to be an antiques dealer and the director of a whaling museum pleaded guilty Thursday in Philadelphia to illegally importing hundreds of sperm whale teeth from ...