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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 />

13<br />

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

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