scrimshaw

Emergency blip tonight after a day pottering and finally realising I had not a single image by 'blip time'!

From a lifetime's collection of odds and sods and bits and bobs this was discovered at a car park 'trash and treasure' a few years ago.
The seller was very vague about its origin and history.
Perhaps from Albany, a town in the south west of the state with a whaling history to as recently as 1978.

Quite beautiful as a piece of intricate work but a sad reminder of the tens and hundreds of thousands of magnificent mammals slaughtered over centuries...and a hopeful future with the recent decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague announcing their' binding decision today in the landmark case of Australia v. Japan, ruling that Japan’s JARPA II whaling program in the Antarctic is not for scientific purposes and ordering that all permits given under JARPA II be revoked.'