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[caption id="attachment_61994" align="alignnone" width="570"] Two scrimshaw "whalebone" busks from the early 1800s housed at the Winterthur Museum in Dela

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Skinner's 3/4/17 lot 166 (back). Estimate: $10K - 15K. Realized: $20,910. Description: Scrimshaw Whale's Tooth with Sailor's Far…

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