The Connoisseur's Spring Collection, Including the Private Collection of Colin Lennox and Tom Gillies, John Stephens and The Late John Klinger

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Lot 628
  • 628

AN IMPRESSIVE PAIR OF SCRIMSHAW HORNS, 19TH CENTURY

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 AUD
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Description

  • AN IMPRESSIVE PAIR OF SCRIMSHAW HORNS, 19TH CENTURY
  • 52cm high (including base)
each horn naively carved with lizards, fish, snakes, emus kangaroos exotic trees, sailing vessels and houses on a later wooden plinth

Catalogue Note

By repute collected by Dr Theodore Wanke in the middle of the 19th century