Scrimshaw Gallery - Yoko Gaydos            page 2
Entitled The Great Tea Race of 1866 showing the clipper ship Taeping leading the clipper ship Ariel.
Signed
Yoko Gaydos 87-23, meaning her 23rd scrimwork, completed in 1987.
Tooth is 7.75-inches & 25.5-ounces.         Historical reference:
Wikipedia
Polychrome of the American 573-ton Orpheus, of the Black Ball Line, as it gets underway from New York to Liverpool in 1835.  Based on the oil painting "Black Ball Packet 'Orpheus' Leaving the East River in 1835," by John Stobart,  Signed Yoko Gaydos, numbered #15, dated 2005 on a 5-inch, 6.5-ounce tooth.
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