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"Peche au Cachalot" (Sperm Whale Fishing), Rare Lithograph by Lebreton
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Peche au Cachalot" (Sperm whale fishing)
Original colored lithograph enhanced with watercolor by
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis Philippe Prints
Materials
Paper
Carved and Decorated Sperm Whale Figure, circa 1900
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Carved Sperm Whale, circa 1900, a fine and early hand carved figure of a sperm whale with
Category
Early 20th Century American Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Pine
18th Century Engraving of Sperm Whales, by Bertuch, 1790
Located in Nantucket, MA
18th Century Engraving of Sperm Whales, by Bertuch, 1790, an engraved zoological plate depicting
Category
Antique 1790s German Other Prints
Materials
Paper
18th Century Engraving of Sperm Whale and Dolphins, by Bertuch, 1790
Located in Nantucket, MA
18th Century Engraving of a Sperm Whale and Dolphins, by Bertuch, 1790, an engraved zoological
Category
Antique 1790s Other Prints
Materials
Paper
1979 Copper Sign of the Crab Nautical Sperm Whale Weathervane Whirligig 24"
Located in Dayton, OH
directions in gilded iron, framed by a pair of graduated copper balls and topped with a hollow copper sperm
Category
Vintage 1970s Garden Ornaments
Materials
Copper
H 24 in W 23.5 in D 37 in
Fossilized Whale Vertebrae
Located in Bradenton, FL
Natural weathered fossilized Whale Vertebrae. One section / specimen. Possibly sperm whale. Likely
Category
Antique 19th Century American Organic Modern Natural Specimens
Materials
Bone
Large Fossilized Whale Vertebrae
Located in Bradenton, FL
Natural weathered fossilized Whale Vertebrae. One section / specimen. Possibly sperm whale. Likely
Category
Antique 19th Century American Organic Modern Natural Specimens
Materials
Bone
Fossilized Whale Vertebrae #15
Located in Bradenton, FL
Natural weathered fossilized Whale Vertebrae. One section / specimen. Possibly sperm whale. Likely
Category
20th Century Organic Modern Natural Specimens
Materials
Bone
Very Large Antique Whale Vertebrae #2
Located in Bradenton, FL
Natural weathered antique Whale Vertebrae. One section / specimen. Possibly sperm whale. Likely
Category
20th Century Organic Modern Natural Specimens
Materials
Bone
Fossilized Carved Whale Vertebrae #16
Located in Bradenton, FL
Natural weathered fossilized Carved Whale Vertebrae. One section / specimen. Possibly sperm whale
Category
20th Century Organic Modern Natural Specimens
Materials
Bone
Antique Print of a Beached Whale by Van der Gouwen 'c.1680'
Located in Langweer, NL
Scheveningen and Katwijk, the Netherlands. It depicts a large sperm whale that has washed ashore and may
Category
Antique Late 17th Century Prints
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Print of Physeter, a genus of Toothed Whales
Located in Langweer, NL
species in this genus: the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). [here as Cachalot whales] Two fossil
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Prints
Materials
Paper
On a Stormy Sea
By Nicholas Berger
Located in Greenwich, CT
her unfortunate destruction by a sperm whale—and the unspeakable horrors that befell her crew
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Midcentury Whale Sculpture on Stand, Circa 1960s
Located in Southbury, CT
This midcentury folk art sculpture features a cobalt blue sperm whale rendered in soldered tin
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Folk Art Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Metal
19th Century Irish Folk Art Whale Tooth
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Irish Folk Art. This sperm whale tooth was etched during the 19th century, in Ireland. There'sa a
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Northern Irish Nautical Objects
Materials
Other
Becalmed
By Nicholas Berger
Located in Greenwich, CT
unfortunate destruction by a sperm whale—and the unspeakable horrors that befell her crew afterward—that
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
To Find Each Other, We Have to Leave Our Depths; To Survive, We Can Not Stay
Located in Boston, MA
finish
Artist's Commentary:
"The sperm whales of the world consume more squid each year by mass than
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Dye
The Essex Taking on Provisions
By Nicholas Berger
Located in Greenwich, CT
destruction by a sperm whale—and the unspeakable horrors that befell her crew afterward—that served as the
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Large Size, Kidney Shape, 14K Gold Nantucket Basket Pendant by Diana Kim England
By Diana Kim England
Located in Palm Beach, FL
seashells and the inside of the lid is scrimshawed with a black, sperm whale.
This large size pendant
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Pendant Necklaces
Materials
Gold, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold
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H 1.88 in W 1.38 in D 0.75 in
Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved Scrimshaw, New Bedford Whaling Museum
Located in valatie, NY
themselves: the teeth and bones of sperm whales, baleen from right and bowhead whales, and walrus tusks
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Books
Materials
Paper
H 11.25 in W 9.5 in D 1.25 in
Untitled
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
as The Cruise of the Cachalot: Round the World After Sperm Whales, Treasure Island, The Mutineers
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Saturday Evening Post Illustration
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cachalot: Round the World After Sperm Whales, Treasure Island, The Mutineers, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea
Category
1930s Other Art Style Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Above the Beach 9 - colourful, animal, indigenous, figurative, acrylic on canvas
By Rick Rivet
Located in Bloomfield, ON
brushstrokes Rivet portrays a large sperm whale at the bottom of the canvas; the shallow waters of the ocean
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
19th C. Painting of a South Seas Whaling Scene, attributed to a Captain E. Howes
Located in Nantucket, MA
ships among a large pod of Sperm Whales; there are five whale boats lowered and in pursuit, with twelve
Category
Antique 1850s American Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas
H 18.5 in W 26.5 in D 1.5 in
The Gaze, Signed Graphite 20th Century Portrait
Located in London, GB
became her technique of choice, often working with hardwoods and, on occasion, sperm whale teeth.
Clarke
Category
Mid-20th Century English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Nantucket Purse by Jose Formoso Reyes, circa 1950
By Jose Formoso Reyes
Located in Nantucket, MA
ebony sperm whale by Charlie Sayle mounted on cherry top plate; signed on the bottom Made In Nantucket
Category
Vintage 1950s American Folk Art Decorative Baskets
Materials
Cane, Pine
Moby Dick by Herman Melville, First Edition, Illustrated by Rockwell Kent, 1930
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
. The historical ship, Essex, that was likewise attacked by a sperm whale in 1820 was a massive
Category
Vintage 1930s American Books
Materials
Paper
H 8 in W 6 in D 2.5 in
Scrimshaw whale tooth engraving of fine workmanship dated around 1850
Located in Milan, IT
. 1. Sul retro del dente è incisa la seguente frase: Crew of the Nonsuch about to fasten to a Sperm
Category
Antique 1850s Nautical Objects
Materials
Teeth
Unbreakable Bond
By Cristina Mittermeier
Located in Chicago, IL
of 6
Archival Pigment Print printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Paper
A pair of sperm whales share a
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
19th Century Colored Lithograph of Sperm Whaling with Its Varieties, 1870
By Benjamin Russell
Located in Nantucket, MA
Fine colored lithograph of Sperm Whaling with its Varieties, after Original by Benjamin Russell
Category
Antique 1870s American Other Prints
Materials
Paper
H 28.5 in W 42.25 in D 1 in
American Darting Gun Toggle Iron Harpoon, Marked Macy, for Bark Sunbeam
Located in Nantucket, MA
, or Port-side Stern whale boat); mounted on a round shank slightly kinked from use, ending in the
Category
Antique 1860s American Other Nautical Objects
Materials
Steel
H 2.5 in W 38.38 in D 0.75 in
Very Large Antique Whale Vertebrae #6
Located in Bradenton, FL
Natural weathered antique Whale Vertebrae. One section / specimen. Possibly sperm whale. Likely
Category
20th Century Organic Modern Natural Specimens
Materials
Bone
Sperm Whale Cufflinks in Solid 18 Karat Gold, Rose Gold, Sterling and Platinum
By Diana Kim England
Located in Red Hook, NY
handmade chain links each pair of whales together. Fits French cuffs.
The Sperm Whale was most sought
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Artisan Cufflinks
Materials
14k Gold, 18k Gold, Rose Gold, Platinum, Sterling Silver
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W 0.24 in D 0.32 in L 1.19 in
19th Century Sailor done Whale Silhouette
Located in North Egremont, MA
The fragmentary lid of a seaman's trunk with a wonderful and iconic image of a sperm whale. The lid
Category
Antique 19th Century American Nautical Objects
Materials
Pine
Rare First Period Argand Chandelier ca. 1800
Located in Snellegem, BE
used during that time was mostly sperm-whale oil, so only a really rich family could offord it in large
Category
20th Century Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal
Generations, Edition 350
Located in Stonington, CT
Humpback Whales, been within 50 feet of a Blue whale, observed River Dolphins in the Orinoco and Sperm
Category
Early 2000s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Gray Cow and Calf II, Edition 350
Located in Stonington, CT
and Sperm whales in the North Pacific and Sea of Cortez, Orcas off Puget Sound and Bottlenose Dolphins
Category
1990s American Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sneak Peek, Edition 350
Located in Stonington, CT
Whales, been within 50 feet of a Blue whale, observed River Dolphins in the Orinoco and Sperm whales in
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Inland, Edition 350
Located in Stonington, CT
whale, observed River Dolphins in the Orinoco and Sperm whales in the North Pacific and Sea of Cortez
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Blitzen (Rough Toothed Dolphin), Edition 350
Located in Stonington, CT
Humpback Whales, been within 50 feet of a Blue whale, observed River Dolphins in the Orinoco and Sperm
Category
1990s American Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sperm Whale Scrimshaw Nautical Faux Tooth
Located in Nottingham, GB
In good condition
From a private collection
Free international shipping
Sperm Whale Scrimshaw
Category
20th Century Nautical Objects
Materials
Resin
Sperm Whale Scrimshaw Nautical Faux Tooth
Located in Nottingham, GB
In good condition
From a private collection
Free international shipping
Sperm Whale Scrimshaw
Category
20th Century Nautical Objects
Materials
Resin
Sperm Whale Scrimshaw Nautical Faux Tooth
Located in Nottingham, GB
In good condition
From a private collection
Free international shipping
Sperm Whale Scrimshaw
Category
20th Century Nautical Objects
Materials
Resin
Sperm Whale Scrimshaw Nautical Faux Tooth
Located in Nottingham, GB
In good condition
From a private collection
Free international shipping
Sperm Whale Scrimshaw
Category
20th Century Nautical Objects
Materials
Resin
Sperm Whale Scrimshaw Nautical Faux Tooth
Located in Nottingham, GB
In good condition
From a private collection
Free international shipping
Sperm Whale Scrimshaw
Category
20th Century Nautical Objects
Materials
Resin
Sperm Whale Scrimshaw Nautical Faux Tooth
Located in Nottingham, GB
In good condition
From a private collection
Free international shipping
Sperm Whale Scrimshaw
Category
20th Century Nautical Objects
Materials
Resin
Tabua Ring is handmade of 24ct silver-plated bronze
Located in London, GB
Tabua is called a polished sperm whale tooth, which is an essential cultural item in Fijian society
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fashion Rings
Materials
Silver Plate, Bronze
Tabua Ring is handmade of 24ct silver-plated bronze
Located in London, GB
Tabua is called a polished sperm whale tooth, which is an essential cultural item in Fijian society
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fashion Rings
Materials
Silver Plate, Bronze
Starfruit Ring is handmade of 24ct gold-plated bronze
Located in London, GB
Tabua is called a polished sperm whale tooth, which is an essential cultural item in Fijian society
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fashion Rings
Materials
Gold Plate, Bronze
Starfruit Ring is handmade of 24ct gold-plated bronze
Located in London, GB
Tabua is called a polished sperm whale tooth, which is an essential cultural item in Fijian society
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fashion Rings
Materials
Gold Plate, Bronze
Tabua Ring is handmade of 24ct silver-plated bronze
Located in London, GB
Tabua is called a polished sperm whale tooth, which is an essential cultural item in Fijian society
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fashion Rings
Materials
Silver Plate, Bronze
Tabua Ring is handmade of 24ct gold-plated bronze
Located in London, GB
Tabua is called a polished sperm whale tooth, which is an essential cultural item in Fijian society
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fashion Rings
Materials
Gold Plate, Bronze
Tabua Ring is handmade of 24ct silver-plated bronze
Located in London, GB
Tabua is called a polished sperm whale tooth, which is an essential cultural item in Fijian society
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fashion Rings
Materials
Silver Plate, Bronze
Tabua Ring is handmade of 24ct silver-plated bronze
Located in London, GB
Tabua is called a polished sperm whale tooth, which is an essential cultural item in Fijian society
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fashion Rings
Materials
Silver Plate, Bronze
Tabua Ring is handmade of 24ct gold-plated bronze
Located in London, GB
Tabua is called a polished sperm whale tooth, which is an essential cultural item in Fijian society
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fashion Rings
Materials
Gold Plate, Bronze
Nantucket Sperm Whale Whirligig
Located in Nantucket, MA
Nantucket Sperm Whale Weather Vane Whirligig, having slender hand-whittled flukes with great
Category
Antique 1890s American Folk Art Weathervanes
Materials
Wood
Hand Carved Rosewood Sperm Whale Sculpture
Located in San Diego, CA
A very cool hand carved rosewood sperm whale, circa the 1980s. The piece is in great condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Animal Sculptures
Materials
Rosewood
Carved Sperm Whale, circa 1950s
Located in Nantucket, MA
Vintage carved and painted sperm whale, by Willard Shepard (1912-1965), a beautifully carved-in-the
Category
Mid-20th Century American Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Pine
Folk Art Carved Sperm Whale
Located in Nantucket, MA
Contemporary Folk Art carved wooden sperm whale, made in the last ten years but in a manner to look
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Folk Art Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood
Carved and Decorated Sperm Whale by M. Gracie, 1976
Located in Nantucket, MA
Vintage carved and polychromed wooden sperm whale by M. Gracie, South Dartmouth, MA, 1976, a
Category
Vintage 1970s American Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Pine
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