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NOAA Photo Library Image - fish9730

Example of scrimshaw on sperm whale's tooth. Circa 1840

Image ID: fish9730, NOAA's Historic Fisheries Collection
Location: Connecticut, Mystic Seaport
Photo Date: 1964
Credit: NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; Smithsonian Institution

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