| And you find yourself sitting alone, thinking of someone you knew before something you must have said about scrimshaw or futhark. |
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| While collectors do appreciate the potential investment value of scrimshaw, that is not usually their primary reason for acquiring it. |
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| Nonetheless, there were interesting antique collectibles bought, such as scrimshaw you see once and don't see again. |
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| Pictured below are a several scrimshaw pieces that we have SOLD from our extensive inventory of antique scrimshaw. |
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| History buffs and art lovers will find much to savor including scrimshaw at this noteworthy museum. |
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| Inspired by the scrimshaw and pipes made by European sailors, argillite carvers sometimes depicted foreign seamen. |
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| While plastic substitutes are widely available, good examples of scrimshaw from the 19th century are still highly prized. |
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| The technique of scrimshaw was first used by European whalers, who taught it to the Inuit, possibly in the 19th century. |
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| While a sailor might put a ship in a bottle, lumberjacks were not to be outdone in their scrimshaw work. |
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| In their leisure time, though, whalemen often practised the art of scrimshaw, creating unique and beautiful works of art as well as practical and useful tools and implements. |
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| The decoration on this tusk is called scrimshaw. It is made by carving a design and then rubbing ink or paint into the grooves. |
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| It's a claustrophobic outcropping of cave dwellings carved into limestone, like scrimshaw, with hardly a tree or a blade of grass to be seen. |
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| Since scrimshaw is a linear technique, we talked about line drawing and ways of adding texture and shading by cross-hatching and stippling. |
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| Charles Manghis, a Nantucket scrimshaw artist who completed commissions for President George W. Bush and his father on a matching set of antique whale teeth, said he always strives for historic accuracy. |
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| And while laser-cut, mass-produced scrimshaw can be found in many United States tourist towns, a relatively small number of scrimshanders still create intricate original works. |
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| Another type of ivory carving is that of scrimshaw, which is the decoration of whales' teeth or walrus tusks with various designs and images, carried out by whalers in the United States during the 19th century. |
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| The scrimshaw on this page is only a small example of what we can do. |
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| The oversupply led in turn to the development of the European art of scrimshaw. |
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| The artists use techniques such as metalwork, enamel, blown glass, lampwork, molding, painted ceramic, carved wood and shell and scrimshaw. |
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| To pass the time, whalers carved scrimshaw and sang ballads. |
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