Whale tooth
Classification:
Date:
1840-1860
Medium:
Ivory, ink
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 x 6 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. ( 7.6 x 16.5 x 3.8 cm )
Description:
Scrimshawed sperm whale tooth engraved with a scene of two frigates on the obverse, one with sails half deployed and fly two American flags, the second has been severely damaged; it's amsts and sails lay in the sea; engraved on the reverse are two frigates meeting; one has all of its sailors out on the rigging.
Credit Line:
Gift of Colonel Henry O. Havemeyer
Object Number:
1981.32[dup]
Gallery Label:
The image may depict the battle between the Constitution and Guerriere. Frequently copied from sources like Kimball’s American Naval Battles, War of 1812 images proved popular subject matter thru the 1860s.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
37665
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Whale's tooth
Classification:
Date:
Early 19th century
Medium:
Ivory, ink
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. ( 6.4 x 16.5 x 3.8 cm )
Description:
Scrimshawed whale tooth engraved with a view of New York City Hall on the obverse; the Hall has two American flags on the reverse is a view of a battle between two frigate with one of them firing a cannon shot.
Credit Line:
Gift of Edmund Astley Prentis
Object Number:
1955.34
Marks:
inscribed: on obverse: "CITY HALL NEW YORK"
inscribed: on reverse: "PEACOCK AND LE EPERVIER"
Gallery Label:
According to the donor, "these teeth were probably made in 1925 by William Perry of Cp. College at Seaman's Institute." The engagement between U.S. Sloop of war 'Peacock' and the British brig ' L'Epervier' occurred of the coast of Florida on April 29, 1814.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
19
eMuseum Object ID:
37625
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
1943.52
Classification:
Date:
1840-1860
Medium:
Ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/4 x 2 1/8 x 1 5/8 in. ( 7 x 5.4 x 4.1 cm )
Description:
Sperm whale tooth carved with elongated knob handle and oval base with engraved flower pot and foliage around the sides and an American eagle in semi-relief on a concave bottom.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Rutherford Oakes Ainslie
Object Number:
1943.52
Gallery Label:
According to the donor, this piece was made on a whaling ship.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
37592
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Grease cup
Classification:
Date:
1900-1909
Medium:
Brass
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/4 x 1 1/4 in. ( 10.8 x 3.2 cm )
Description:
Cylindrical brass grease cup; matting around outer edge of lid; three-part handle which allows circular shaft penetrating lid center to rotate; circular plate attached to shaft moves vertically through cup.
Credit Line:
Purchase, James B. Wilbur Fund
Object Number:
1941.832
Gallery Label:
According to the donor, this grease cup from the steamer the 'Robert Fulton' (1909) of the Hudson River Day Line.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1909
eMuseum Object ID:
37560
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Whale's tooth
Classification:
Date:
1910-1940
Medium:
Ivory, black ink
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/4 x 5 5/8 x 1 1/4 in. ( 7 x 14.3 x 3.2 cm )
Description:
Engraved scrimshaw whale's tooth; engraved with black ink on the obverse with a profile view of a frigate flying flags including American flag.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Fanny Shapiro
Object Number:
1943.76
Marks:
engraved: "THE GEM OF THE PACIFIC"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
37368
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Scrimshaw (whale's tooth)
Classification:
Date:
1910-1940
Medium:
Ivory, pigment
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/2 x 4 5/8 x 1 1/2 in. ( 6.4 x 11.7 x 3.8 cm )
Description:
Whale's tooth with scene of a pier and warehouse with a ship, seen from the stern, on the object's right and a bow of a ship protruding from object's left.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Fanny Shapiro
Object Number:
1943.14
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
37367
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Scrimshaw (whale's tooth)
Classification:
Date:
1910-1940
Medium:
Ivory, pigment
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/4 x 5 7/8 x 1 1/8 in. ( 5.7 x 14.9 x 2.9 cm )
Description:
Whale's tooth engraved and blackened with ink with an image of a skiff and figures upset by a whale with sailing ship in background.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Fanny Shapiro
Object Number:
1943.11
Gallery Label:
The scene is a poor copy of "Peche du Cachalot," a painting by the French artist and corsair Ambroise Louis Garneray, published as an engraving in 1834.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
37365
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Scrimshaw (whale's tooth)
Classification:
Date:
1910-1940
Medium:
Ivory, pigment
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 x 3 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. ( 17.8 x 9.5 x 7 cm )
Description:
Whale's tooth with full length image of a man standing in the 17th costume holding a cane inscribed and rubbed with black ink on obverse.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Fanny Shapiro
Object Number:
1943.9
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
37364
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Whale's tooth
Classification:
Date:
1920-1939
Medium:
Ivory, pigment
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/4 x 7 in. ( 5.7 x 17.8 cm )
Description:
Scrimshawed sperm whale tooth engraved with bow and port view of sailing ship under full sail with printed inscription below.
Credit Line:
Gift of George A. Zabriskie
Object Number:
1941.773b
Marks:
engraved: below image: "BARK WANDERER HOMEWARD BOUND"
Gallery Label:
Carving suggests “modern” work made for the souvenir trade in the first half of the 20th century. The ship depicted is likely the Wanderer, a New England Whaler built in 1878 in Mattapoisett,MA, which obtained some measure of status as an icon of the whaling days after appearing in the 1922 film “Down to the Sea in Ships”. The Wanderer wrecked on Cuttyhunk Island in 1924.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1939
eMuseum Object ID:
37334
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Scrimshaw (whale's tooth)
Classification:
Date:
1910-1940
Medium:
Ivory, red and black ink
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/4 in. ( 5.7 cm )
Description:
Engraved and polychromed scrimshaw whale's tooth; engraved in black and red on the obverse with a profile view of a frigate with an American flag.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Fanny Shapiro
Object Number:
1943.83
Marks:
engraved: "HOMEWARD BOUND"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
37332
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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