From Whale Jaws to Corsets: How Sailors' Love Tokens Got Into

[caption id="attachment_61994" align="alignnone" width="570"] Two scrimshaw "whalebone" busks from the early 1800s housed at the Winterthur Museum in Dela

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From Whale Jaws to Corsets: How Sailors' Love Tokens Got Into

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From Whale Jaws to Corsets: How Sailors' Love Tokens Got Into

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Scrimshaw is a bizarre art form originating on whaling ships, used