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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 10766713, member: 8267&quot;]As noted in the invaluable link you found, this is a resin imitation of scrimshaw created by the Juratone company in England. It is a replica of part of a whale&#039;s jaw bone, often called the pan bone, but the scene depicted is not a copy of any original (historic) scrimshaw artwork.</p><p><br /></p><p>In a monograph written by Stuart M. Frank, <b>Fakeshaw: A Checklist of Plastic &quot;Scrimshaw&quot;</b>, this particular piece is identified as number 101PB in a catalog of Juratone&#039;s creations, and is listed under the name &quot;The Great Hunt&quot; / &quot;Topaz&quot;. Here is an excerpt from Frank&#039;s monograph, discussing Juratone and similar companies -</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]534056[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://www.whalingmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/KWM-Monorgaph-Series-No-1_Fakeshaw.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.whalingmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/KWM-Monorgaph-Series-No-1_Fakeshaw.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.whalingmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/KWM-Monorgaph-Series-No-1_Fakeshaw.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an example of the same piece held in the Royal Museums Greenwich - </p><p><a href="https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-24" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-24" rel="nofollow">https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-24</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And another in the New Bedford Whaling Museum -</p><p><a href="https://newbedford.emuseum.com/objects/189305/topaz-aka-the-great-hunt?ctx=41e6c45c4f231325ef04b06c1393aaa41ebaf065&amp;idx=5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://newbedford.emuseum.com/objects/189305/topaz-aka-the-great-hunt?ctx=41e6c45c4f231325ef04b06c1393aaa41ebaf065&amp;idx=5" rel="nofollow">https://newbedford.emuseum.com/objects/189305/topaz-aka-the-great-hunt?ctx=41e6c45c4f231325ef04b06c1393aaa41ebaf065&amp;idx=5</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And some good advice from the Scott Polar Institute, in an article describing their scrimshaw collection -</p><p>&quot;Beware of important-looking or highly decorated teeth and tusks. Dates, localities and the names of people and ships are rare on old scrimshaw but common on modern scrimshaw and plastic.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/catalogue/scrimshaw/about.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/catalogue/scrimshaw/about.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/catalogue/scrimshaw/about.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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