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Mystery Artist #5 – P. Hayde Scrimshaw on Whale Tooth

This is a piece by “P. Hayde”, a polychrome (color) scrimshaw on whale tooth.  We know the artist’s name (Philip Hayde)...

Mystery Scrimshaw Artist #4

I went slack jawed when I saw this (and that’s not my usual response to a piece of scrimshaw!) – this beautiful piece was purchased in Tonopa...

Mystery Artist #3: “MIB”, MWB, MIR or MWR

We don’t know much about “MIB” – they created this beautiful art nouveau jewelry in 1989, and that it appears to be held...

Mystery Scrimshaw Artist #2

So far we have a written question, hoping for some pictures soon: “I have a tooth with a fairly complicated carving of a large sailing ship and...

Mystery Artist #1

We have had a lot of interest in matching artist’s names and information to various scrimshaw art.  This is the first for the new site, from “KC”. Information...