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Scrimshaw Collection

Title:: Corset Busk
Description/Caption:: Material: Whale skeletal bone
Date: c1837
Basis Protection Paper
Pigment: Black, red
Tool used: knife
Design: Face Top to bottom: heart with star; eagle with shield; tall monument with man on top, WA--on bottom of monument; urn with flowers.
Verso: marked with red crayon $8.
Collection:: Scrimshaw Collection
Item Type:: Corset Busk
Item ID:: nwcS007
Author/Creator:: Unknown
Dimensions:: Length: 12 1/4" 31 cm; Width: 1 1/2" 3.8 cm; Thickness: 1/16" 2 mm
Location:: PPL Special Collections
Source:: Paul C. Nicholson Whaling Collection
Notes:: Condition: Dirty, spot of blue ink on bottom Cleaned 10 May 1999 Other notes: Top shaped with two arcs, which form tops of heart design; bottom rounded to half circle. Location: Box 1 - Cataloged by Judith N. Lund - Date: 29 March 1999
Tags/Keywords:: busk, corset, red, scrimshaw, whale, whalebone

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