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1 Ronald Bourgeault, that auction house’s owner, wrote in an email that auction plans had been delayed “until there is a clear understanding that governmental regulations allow an exemption for the sale of antique scrimshaw.”

2 Buying walrus tusk carvings or engravings (also known as scrimshaw) is legal—but only if the art was done by Alaska natives.

3 The center houses varied collections, including ship figureheads, models, some 1,500 pieces of scrimshaw, shipbuilding tools, paintings, more than a million photographs, logs, sailors’ journals, charts and textiles.

4 The auction has been delayed, however, because of pending legislation in many states that would ban scrimshaw sales in an effort to protect wildlife.

5 Next Friday and on May 15 and 16 the museum will host its annual Scrimshaw Weekend, with dealers selling genuine antiques and a dozen lecturers debunking scrimshaw myths.

6 Why it's still going The fusion of history, knowledge and manners speaks of gentler times and nobler ways, of humility, tweed, bicycle bells and feigned interest in the provenance of one's scrimshaw.

7 Among them: Ivory tusks, nearly 25 scrimshawed whale teeth, and two mounted walrus skulls, a store employee told the Anchorage Daily News on Saturday.

8 What does the rude placement of art objects, documentary videos and scrimshaw matter, though?

9 The picture is sometimes wayward and unwieldy, its dialog creaky and awkward, like an amateur’s attempt at scrimshaw.

10 From leather work and life-size bronze statues to intricate paintings on wasp-nest paper, scrimshaw and jewelry, his varied artistic creations reflect his unique talents and affinity with the natural world.

11 Local jewelers and scrimshaw artists say it would put them out of work, while others say it could hurt collectors who own antique guns or musical instruments that are decorated with ivory.

12 To the side, walrus tusks made of steel covered in encaustic wax were printed with what seemed to be scrimshaw but turned out, on closer inspection, to be the formulas for toxic chemicals.

13 Mr. Dinges said he engraved the laptops in much the same way that 18th- and 19th-century sailors created their scrimshaw works out of sperm-whale teeth, except that he uses an electric engraver.

14 One is scrimshaw, the carved images made on whale bone and teeth, walruses’ tusks and other artifacts of the 18th- and 19th-century whaling industry.

15 And most of what was happening on the show’s margins—a scrimshaw of timelines and reveals about secret robots—seemed designed to forestall the show’s dealing with the real questions at its heart.

16 Manghis is a commercial artist involved in making and selling scrimshaw.

17 But our carpenter was a famous workman at "scrimshaw," and he started half a dozen walking-sticks forthwith.

18 Its centerpiece is more than 200 works of painstakingly hand-drawn scrimshaw that Riley has spent three years making.

19 It sounds like a menu item, a fine Angus filet with a scrimshaw reduction.

20 Duke Riley started out making maritime crafts, like sailor’s valentines and scrimshaws, entirely out of shells, bones and other natural materials that washed ashore on the beaches of Cape Cod, Massachusetts and greater New York.

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