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  2. Scrimshaw - Wikipedia

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    Scrimshaw is scrollwork, engravings, and carvings done in bone or ivory. Typically it refers to the artwork created by whalers , engraved on the byproducts of whales, such as bones or cartilage. It is most commonly made out of the bones and teeth of sperm whales , the baleen of other whales , and the tusks of walruses .

  3. 'Antiques Roadshow:' See a whale tooth worth more than $150K

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    Now, sperm whales are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. So, in order to sell the animal's tooth, it must be over 100 years old, and the owner has to know where it's been since the ...

  4. Whaling in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Other forms of ivory included a whale's panbone, walrus ivory, and elephant ivory. Of course, the most common scrimshaw during the whaling period of the 19th century was made from whale parts. Other forms of scrimshaw included whalebone fids (rope splicer), bodkins (needle), swifts (yarn holding equipment) and sailors' canes.

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  6. Netsuke - Wikipedia

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    Baleen: the sperm whale has teeth running the whole length of its enormous lower jaw. Those in the middle tend to be the largest, often obtaining a length of more than six to eight inches. These larger ones are often used by carvers of scrimshaw. Whale's bone: all bones are hollow, the cavity being filled with a spongy material. Cuts across ...

  7. Jerry Seinfeld reveals amazing story behind 'genius' Jason ...

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    It’s Tuesday,” Seinfeld said May 2 on “The Rich Eisen Show.” “We don’t have the golf ball goes into the blowhole of the whale. We don’t have it. No, it was never in the script.”

  8. World’s rarest whale may have washed up on New ... - AOL

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    Spade-toothed whales are the world’s rarest, with no live sightings ever recorded. No one knows how many there are, what they eat, or even where they live in the vast expanse of the southern ...

  9. Folk art of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Whale bone was easy to carve into, and was plentiful as it was generally not a product that was taken back and sold the way whale oil and meat was. Whalers generally had lots of free time in between whale sightings, so scrimshaw carving was one creative pursuit they found to fill that time. It was most commonly done by New England whalers. [27]