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217. HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND MOST DESIRABLE FINE QUALITY, ARTISTIC AND
INFORMATIVE SPERM WHALE TOOTH, circa 1838, attributed to the master scrimshander T. L.
Albro. Deeply engraved on one side with a detailed whale ship cutting in with a whale alongside, whalemen
on deck and on crow’s nest exclaiming “there she blows”, interrupting the phrase “View of Cutting a Sperm
Whale” – “A Whale Spout” above the horizon with spout on waterline. To the left of the stern is a mountain
range and ships in the distance. Above is engraved “Eoua Isl.”, and latitude and longitude and a sun with
a face. The reverse engraved with a ship in full sail and a figure in the crow’s nest. The phrase “View of a
Sperm Whale just harpooned – Ship John Coggeshall of Newport, RI” above an active whaling scene of
whale and three long boats, a spout on the horizon. On the bottom edge of the tooth between the scenes is a
fine full portrait of a sperm whale with a double fluke harpoon and the phrase, “A Large Sperm Whale Will
Make 100 lbs Oil.” Length 7 ¾ in.

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