The History and Allure of Mermaid Scrimshaw
Getting a genuine item of mermaid scrimshaw is much like stumbling upon a misplaced piece of maritime history. It's one of those art forms that feels deeply coupled to the sea, carrying the of long evenings spent on the whaling ship plus the wild imaginations of sailors who else were months, sometimes years, away from home. There is some thing incredibly haunting plus beautiful about a good image etched in to bone or off white by someone who was probably simply trying to keep their sanity in the particular middle of the particular Pacific Ocean. ...