Whale Board
Sag Harbor Whale Scrimshaw Cribbage Board
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
multiple ships, whales and alternating back drops of mountains on one side and a palm tree covered shores
Category
Antique Early 19th Century American Folk Art Antiquities
Materials
Tortoise Shell
Carved and Painted Six Whale Species Board Made by Nantucket Whaler, circa 1940
By Captain George Grant
Located in Nantucket, MA
whale at age 16 and continued in the whaling business into his 30s.
Later, as curator of the Whaling
Category
Early 20th Century American Folk Art Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Pine, Paint
H 18.25 in W 34.25 in D 4 in
Outsider Painting in Acrylic of a Humpback Whale on Blue
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
masonite board. At the center is a black humpback whale with an open mouth and beady eye. It is painted on
Category
Late 20th Century American Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paint
1825 Hand-Colored Aquatint Engraving by T. Sutherland "South Sea Whale Fishery"
By William John Huggins
Located in Morristown, NJ
. Titled "South Sea Whale Fishery", after a painting by William John Huggins (English, 1781-1845
Category
Antique 1820s English George IV Prints
Materials
Glass, Wood, Giltwood, Paper
H 25.75 in W 30.75 in D 0.5 in
Inuit Eskimo Life: An 1812 Moravian Missionary's Account from the Labrador Coast
Located in Langweer, NL
fishing. Their survival relied heavily on the hunting of sea mammals such as seals, whales, and walruses
Category
Antique 1810s Prints
Materials
Paper
H 10.63 in W 8.27 in D 0 in
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19th C., Vanity Fair Framed Chromolithographs of Gentlemen Ex. Christie's, 12
By Sir Leslie Ward
Located in Morristown, NJ
[English Gentlemen], from Vanity Fair twelve chromolithographs, on wove papers. Printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son., with various dates from 1875 to 1897. Eight are by Spy, two are ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Prints
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
President John F. & First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s English Victorian Tea Table
By Albert Hadley, Sister Parish
Located in St. Louis, MO
President John F. & First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s
English Victorian tea table
Quite possibly the most important tea table in American History
The famed, English Victorian tea ta...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Victorian Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Lacquer
H 19 in W 33.5 in D 27.25 in
19th Century English Oversized Sliding Barn Door
Located in Staffordshire, GB
19th century English oversized sliding pine barn door from a North Yorkshire Barn,
circa 1890.
A great statement door with original cast Iron pulley track & ironmongery.
Suite...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century British Doors and Gates
Materials
Pine
Antique Victorian Vintage Ivory Bovine Whale Bone Walking Swagger Stick Cane
Located in Dublin, Ireland
A Very Fine & Rare Example of a Mariner’s Whale Bone Walking Cane of exceptional quality. First half of the Nineteenth Century, possibly of English origin.
The hand carved decorati...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century British Victorian Sports Equipment and Memora...
Materials
Horn, Ebony
H 36.25 in W 1.5 in D 1.5 in
'Fougasse' Careless Talk Costs Lives Cyril Kenneth Bird World War 2 poster
By Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird)
Located in London, GB
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Category
1940s Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Fougasse' Careless Talk Costs Lives Cyril Kenneth Bird World War 2 poster
By Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird)
Located in London, GB
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Category
1940s Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Fougasse' Careless Talk Costs Lives Cyril Kenneth Bird World War 2 poster
By Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird)
Located in London, GB
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Category
1940s Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
13' Vancouver Island TOTEM by Don Colp 158"H
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
13'2" totem by Don Colp. Inside or outside. Born in Alberta, Canada in 1932, Don Colp grew up on a farm with his parents and four younger brothers. Growing up in the post-depression ...
Category
Early 20th Century Canadian Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Cedar
Inuit Fossilized Whale Bone Sculpture #13
Located in Bradenton, FL
Inuit fossilized whale bone sculpture. Unique whale vertebrae with hand carved depiction of a ship.
Category
Antique 19th Century Organic Modern Natural Specimens
Materials
Bone
Antique English Oak Cribbage Game Board, circa 1910
Located in Pearland, TX
An early 20th Century handmade English cribbage oak game board with beveled edges and 4 pegs, circa 1910. Maker's mark on reverse. It would make a wonderful gift!
DIMENSIONS
12.5ʺW ...
Category
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Games
Materials
Oak
7990 Scrimshaw of vertically engraved whale tooth dated around 1850
Located in Milan, IT
Scrimshaw of a vertically engraved whale tooth datable to around the mid-19th century depicting an old sailor with a beard and long hair holding leaning over one shoulder a cormoran...
Category
Antique 1850s Nautical Objects
Materials
Teeth
Handmade Cribbage Board with Brass Inlay and Magnetic Storage Drawers
By Jack McDevitt, McDevitt Metal
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A cribbage board made from brass and steel with intricate inlayed brass details.
A felt-lined drawer on one end holds a deck of cards while the two drawers on the opposite end hold p...
Category
2010s American Art Deco Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Steel
H 1.375 in W 12.125 in D 3.5 in
'Fougasse' Rugby Referees Cyril Kenneth Bird original poster
By Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird)
Located in London, GB
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Category
1940s Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Fougasse' Careless Talk Costs Lives Cyril Kenneth Bird World War 2 poster
By Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird)
Located in London, GB
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Category
1940s Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
19th Century Antique Powder Horn with Scrimshaw
Located in San Diego, CA
Rare 19th century antique powder horn with scrimshaw, circa 1872. The horn is inscribed "Charles Lee" in scroll on the side of the horn and the wood cap is carved with the initials "...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century American Folk Art Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Metal
Elements of Time & Space
By Katie VanVliet
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Intaglio on Somerset paper, edition of 4
The artwork is shipped unframed. Please message us directly if you are interested in purchasing the piece already framed.
Bio // Katie Van...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary More Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Intaglio
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Copper Cast Wall Plaque
Located in Cookeville, TN
. People on board the row boats seem to be very interested in the whale.
Category
Mid-20th Century English Arts and Crafts Wall-mounted Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Paint Decorated Early Wooden Whaler Weathervane
Located in Hadley, MA
weathervane, depicted blowing his horn, indicating sighting of a whale. Cut from a single pine board
Category
Early 20th Century American Weathervanes
Materials
Pine
Carved and Painted Whale Board
By Captain George Grant
Located in Nantucket, MA
Featuring twelve carved whales mounted on a painted pine board with roped frame.
Signed on the
Category
Early 20th Century American Folk Art Sculptures and Carvings
Large Irish Pub Sign for "The Whale", circa 1920s
Located in Nantucket, MA
sign for "The Whale" with dramatic painting of a right whale, with pub name in Gold Leaf. Both sides
Category
Early 20th Century Irish Folk Art Signs
Materials
Wood
Seascape with Whale Ship, by J.H. Appleby, circa 1880
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century seascape with whale ship, by J.H. Appleby, circa 1880, an oil on board view of a
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Late Victorian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Outsider Painting in Acrylic of a Sperm Whale on Blue
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
board. At the center is a black sperm whale with an open mouth. It is painted on a variety of blue
Category
Late 20th Century American Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Masonite, Paint
Outsider Painting in Acrylic of A Sperm Whale on Blue
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
board. At the center is a black sperm whale with an open mouth. It is painted on a variety of blue
Category
20th Century American Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Masonite
Outsider Painting in Acrylic of a Sperm Whale on Blue
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
board. At the center is a black sperm whale with an open mouth. It is painted on a variety of blue
Category
Late 20th Century American Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Masonite, Paint
Outsider Painting in Acrylic of a Sperm Whale on Blue
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
board. At the center is a black sperm whale with an open mouth. It is painted on a variety of blue
Category
20th Century American Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paint
Dakota Jackson Woven Metal Queen Size Bed
By Dakota Jackson
Located in Hanover, MA
collection launched in 1994. Frame of headboard and foot board have an elegant organic form like the tail of
Category
Late 20th Century American Beds and Bed Frames
19th Century Original Whaling Painting by Benjamin Russell, circa 1880
By Benjamin Russell
Located in Nantucket, MA
, an oil on board intimate seascape with Yankee whale boat approaching a sperm whale, with whale ship
Category
Antique 1880s American Other Paintings
Materials
Other
Early Northwest Coast Chilkat Robe - Mid 19th Century
Located in Denver, CO
pattern board which would have been created by a male member of the tribe.
The subject is somewhat
Category
Antique 19th Century American Native American Native American Objects
19th Century China Trade American Ship Painting
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Possibly the Niantic, a whale ship that traveled to China around 1840 and then back to San
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings
Materials
Paint
Martha Farham Cahoon Painting
By Martha Cahoon
Located in Downingtown, PA
reading Whale Oil, opposite the departing ship, are a group of people on a widow's walk waving the ship
Category
Vintage 1960s American Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Masonite
19th Century Whale Painting
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
This image speaks for its self. Signed H. McCabe 66. Oil on canvas board with an old maple frame. A
Category
Antique 1860s American American Classical Paintings
Nantucket Carved Whale by William Dickson, 1971
By William J. Dickson
Located in Nantucket, MA
pine sperm whale with upraised flukes and open mouth exposing teeth, mounted on weathered barn board
Category
Vintage 1970s American Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Wood
Nantucket Carved Sperm Whale by William Dickson, 1967
Located in Nantucket, MA
pine sperm whale with upraised flukes and open mouth exposing teeth, mounted on weathered barn board
Category
Vintage 1960s American Folk Art Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Pine
1835s Scrimshaw Vertically Engraved Whale Tooth Antique Nautical Workmanship
Located in Milan, IT
Scrimshaw of a vertically engraved whale tooth, of
fine workmanship, length 12.7 cm, depicting the
Category
Antique 1830s Nautical Objects
Materials
Bone
H 5 in W 1.5 in D 2.2 in
19th Century Scrimshaw Engraved Whale Tooth Antique Original Marine Artcraft
Located in Milan, IT
Scrimshaw of a vertically engraved whale tooth, of exquisite workmanship, length 12.6 cm, depicting
Category
Antique 1850s Nautical Objects
Materials
Teeth
H 5 in W 1.5 in D 2.6 in
19th Century Scrimshaw Engraved Whale Tooth Fine Antique Nautical Workmanship
Located in Milan, IT
Scrimshaw of an engraved whale tooth, of fine workmanship from the half of the 19th century, length
Category
Antique 1850s Desk Sets
Materials
Bone
H 4.3 in W 1.55 in D 1 in
19th Century Scrimshaw of Antique Engraved Whale Tooth Fine Nautical Workmanship
Located in Milan, IT
Scrimshaw of an engraved whale tooth, very fine
workmanship, half of the 19th century,
length 15
Category
Antique 1850s Nautical Objects
Materials
Bone
H 5.5 in W 1.5 in D 1.8 in
19th Century Scrimshaw of an Engraved Whale Tooth Antique Nautical Workmanship
Located in Milan, IT
on board; this form of craft developed through a process of engraving and carving whale bones and
Category
Antique 1850s Nautical Objects
Materials
Bone
H 5.5 in W 1.6 in D 2 in
19th Century Antique Scrimshaw of an Engraved Whale Tooth Ancient Marine Art
Located in Milan, IT
Scrimshaw of an engraved whale tooth, of exquisite workmanship, from the mid 19th century length 14
Category
Antique 1850s Nautical Objects
Materials
Teeth
H 1.5 in W 1.6 in D 5.5 in
Vintage Folk Art Hand-Made Carved and Painted Sag Harbor "Whale" Sign
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Crude Folk Art handmade 'whale' sign from Sag Harbor (ca. early 20th Century, USA).
Hand-carved
Category
Early 20th Century American Folk Art Signs
Materials
Wood, Paint
H 13.88 in W 21.88 in D 0.88 in
WWII Molly Pitcher '1943' Ship Hatch Whale Form Anchor Nautical Coffee Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
link (not believed to be from the Molly Pitcher) with the solid wood top shaped in the form of a whale
Category
Vintage 1970s American Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Iron
H 15.5 in W 60 in D 24 in
Oak Box With Multiple Games, Chess, Checkers, Backgammon and Many Others
Located in Petaluma, CA
horse racing game. The board is made of leather, and shows no wear, or age. We believe this was hardly
Category
Antique Early 1900s English Edwardian Games
Materials
Lead
1930s Trompe L'Oeil Painting By Hollywood Surrealist
Located in Treasure Island, CA
Herman Rosse
Trompe L'oeil Interior of a lady's dressing room
oil on board
circa 1930s
14 x
Category
Vintage 1930s American Paintings
Materials
Board
Dakota Jackson Queen Woven Metal Bed Frame
By Dakota Jackson
Located in San Francisco, CA
. Frame of headboard and foot board have an elegant organic form like the tail of a whale and are composed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Beds and Bed Frames
Materials
Metal
Queen Anne Tiger Maple Lowboy Base, Now Server, CT.
Located in Providence, RI
Highboys were often separated as the base with an added top board make for efficient servers in a
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier American Lowboys
Weathervane of Whale in Copper
Located in Madison, WI
board for room display. In beautifully patinated copper, this whale boasts striking detail of arched
Category
20th Century Unknown Architectural Elements
Materials
Copper, Steel
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Whale Board For Sale on 1stDibs
At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal whale board for your home. Each whale board for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using bone, wood and paint. Your living room may not be complete without a whale board — find older editions for sale from the 19th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. When you’re browsing for the right whale board, those designed in folk art and Georgian styles are of considerable interest. Benjamin Russell and Captain George Grant each produced at least one beautiful whale board that is worth considering.
How Much is a Whale Board?
A whale board can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $2,497, while the lowest priced sells for $995 and the highest can go for as much as $18,000.
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