Onassis OLYMPIC CHALLENGER souvenir catalogue - Lardex
Onassis OLYMPIC CHALLENGER souvenir catalogue - Lardex
Onassis OLYMPIC CHALLENGER souvenir catalogue - Lardex
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The OMIROS baleen scribe:<br />
Sail boat model, tropical wood, bright fin<br />
whale baleen, string, metal fittings.<br />
The baleen inscribed: “Walfang || 1950 – 51<br />
|| im Ross Meer || 72° Süd || S.S. “Omiros””<br />
Height ca. 29.5, length ca. 26.5 cm.<br />
Dedecke Whaling Collection<br />
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The OMIROS baleen scribe:<br />
Desk top, wood, polished sperm whale<br />
tooth, polished rorqual earbone, humpback<br />
whale barnacle (Coronula sp.), bright fin<br />
whale baleen. The baleen with identical<br />
inscription.<br />
Height ca. 37, width ca. 30 cm.<br />
Barthelmess Whaling Collection<br />
Anonymous scrimshander (possibly Johann Henkel, Elsfleth):<br />
Engraved and whitened blue whale baleen slab: harpoon gunner closing in on a whale, giving<br />
steering commands with his right arm. The gun is a Bofors harpoon cannon.<br />
Length ca. 80 cm<br />
Rosenbohm Whaling Collection