AN INTERESTING AND RARE SET OF THREE 19 T H CENTURY SCRIMSHAW DECORATED WHALE'S TEETH each worked on both sides and with a portrait of a member of the Royal Family of Hawaii dressed as Europeans and framed with ropework and harpoon all inscribed with their name and BARK GALVESTON CONDEMNED HONALULU 1871 the reverses incised with a group portrait entitled KING KAMEHAMEHAV & HAWAIAN NOBLES ; a canoe manned by masked islanders DOUBLE CANOE SANDWICH ISLANDS with the sun rising over a headland with RETREAT in the middle; and a depiction of a MASKED SANDWICH ISLANDER , all three signed and dated lower right SAAVEDRA 71 , each -- 7in. (18cm.) approx; Letter of provenance dated 1939 See illustration (3)
AN INTERESTING AND RARE SET OF THREE 19 T H CENTURY SCRIMSHAW DECORATED WHALE'S TEETH each worked on both sides and with a portrait of a member of the Royal Family of Hawaii dressed as Europeans and framed with ropework and harpoon all inscribed with their name and BARK GALVESTON CONDEMNED HONALULU 1871 the reverses incised with a group portrait entitled KING KAMEHAMEHAV & HAWAIAN NOBLES ; a canoe manned by masked islanders DOUBLE CANOE SANDWICH ISLANDS with the sun rising over a headland with RETREAT in the middle; and a depiction of a MASKED SANDWICH ISLANDER , all three signed and dated lower right SAAVEDRA 71 , each -- 7in. (18cm.) approx; Letter of provenance dated 1939 See illustration (3)
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