Walking cane with carved SCRIMSHAW

Walking cane with carved SCRIMSHAW and dagger of Captain Angus Nutching of Hutching, with USA flag, compass-rose and treemasted whaler

Type of object:

Other instruments

Time period:

Ontdekkingsreizigers 19de eeuw of later

Place:

USA

Date:

1837

Maker / Author:

not known

Publisher / Printer:

not known

Dimensions:

92 cm height, Ball diameter: 5 cm

Material:

bamboe cane and Sperm Whale tooth handle, steel dagger

Graduation:

none

Inscription:

This... property of Captain Angus Nutching of Hutching,
with a USA flag with 13 stars, a compass-rose and a treemasted ship probably a whaler, dated 1837

Provenance:

USA

References:

n/a

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Description

A Scrimshaw cane, and hidden long dagger of a captain of a threemasted whaler with a handle made of a whale tooth, probably a sperm whale.