TWO SPERM WHALE IVORY AND BONE BUSKS, 19TH CENTURY

including a rare scrimshaw baleen busk engraved with an inn, initialed H.S.B., the inn sign dated 1844; a rare scrimshaw whalebone portrait and wreath example attributed to the 'Banknote Portraitist' (See Stuart M. Frank, Dictionary of Scrimshaw Artists, Mystic Seaport Museum, 1991, p.154).