SCRIMSHAW ARTIST View all Chris Lehwalder scrimshaw pieces The artist was born to a family of eight in Seattle, Washington. His father was a Federal Parole Officer, who had met his future wife at the Seattle Symphony during World War II while flying B-17’s out of Boeing Field, in Seattle. During the War he was […]
“Balclutha in Heavy Seas” color scrimshaw on ancient walrus tusk ivory artifact by Chris Lehwalder. Famed ship, Balclutha, is shown in heavy weather with topsails furled. Excellent work by Lehwalder, one of the very berst color nautical scrimshanders ever. Interesting artifact. Not really sure just exactly how it was used, but bears scoring marks on bottom.
- Balclutha is a three-masted, steel-hulled, square-rigged ship built to carry a variety of cargo all over the world.
- Launched in 1886 by the Charles Connell and Company shipyard near Glasgow, Scotland, the ship carried goods around Cape Horn (tip of South America) 17 times.
- It took a crew of about 26 men to handle the ship at sea with her complex rigging and 25 sails.
SCRIMSHAW ARTIST View all Matt Stothart scrimshaw pieces As a boy growing up in a small Quaker community near Trenton, New Jersey, I was surrounded by history. Our house had been built around the time of the Revolution and the Meeting House in our town commons had a cannon ball cemented into the brick wall […]
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