Onassis OLYMPIC CHALLENGER souvenir catalogue - Lardex
Onassis OLYMPIC CHALLENGER souvenir catalogue - Lardex
Onassis OLYMPIC CHALLENGER souvenir catalogue - Lardex
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Scrimshaw and related whaler folk art<br />
The <strong>Onassis</strong> flag painter:<br />
Company house mark painted on a sperm<br />
whale tooth mounted on whale bone<br />
placque.<br />
Tooth length ca. 15.5 cm.<br />
Dedecke Whaling Collection<br />
The <strong>Onassis</strong> flag painter:<br />
Whale catcher <strong>OLYMPIC</strong> LEADER (boat No.<br />
1) fast to a whale, flags of Panama, Olympic<br />
Whaling Company, and Honduras, Olympic<br />
rings, inscription: “Südpolarexpedition ||<br />
Walfangflotte || „Olympic Challenger“”<br />
painted on a sperm whale tooth, mounted on<br />
wooden base.<br />
Tooth length ca. 15.5 cm<br />
Barthelmess Whaling Collection<br />
10<br />
The <strong>Onassis</strong> flag painter:<br />
Company house mark painted on a piece of<br />
sperm whale jaw bone.<br />
Dimensions ca. 8 x 16 cm.<br />
Vonk Whaling Collection<br />
The <strong>Onassis</strong> Aruba scrimshander:<br />
Engraved sperm whale tooth on wooden<br />
base with square whale bone feet.<br />
Tooth length ca. 20 cm.<br />
Label underneath: “Aruba “Olympic”<br />
1951/52”.<br />
Vonk Whaling Collection
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