A MID 19TH CENTURY SCRIMSHAW SPERM WHALE TOOTH DEPICTING A MOTHER AND CHILD

the scratch engraved portrait of a young mother weraing a frilly bonnet holding a young child with matching bonnet,

16cm long

This lot is subject to CITES.

Provenance: Purchased by the current owner from a private collection on the Island Orkney, where it had remained in the same family for generations, the family having long ties to the whaling industry.