Scrimshaw Gallery - Stephan Turner

Wharf & building scene on 8-inch, 22-ounce tooth

Hilltop view of harbor scene on an 8-inch, 24-ounce tooth.  Commissioner requested his English sheep dog included with family portrait.

Drying sails wharfside on a 7-inch tooth

"Making Harbor at Flood Tide" on a 6-inch tooth.

Departure at High Tide, on an 8.5-inch, 29-ounce tooth

"Snowy Owl" on a 20-ounce tooth

"Life and Death" on a 5-inch x 2-inch fossil Mammoth ivory section

"Symbols of the West" on on fossil Mammoth ivory

"Sawmill" on fossil Mammoth ivory

New England wharf scene on a 7-inch, 16-ounce tooth

USS Constitution (right) captures the HMS Java (left) off of the coast of Brazil, on December 29, 1812.  Tooth is 8-inches & 24-ounces.

New England lighthouse

Portrait of Sitting Bull on a 6.5-inch tooth

An extremely detailed piece entitled "Admiral Nelson at Trafalgar 1805".  Scrimmed in 1985-86, this shows Steve's earlier work was every bit as complex as is his current work.  Done on a 20 ounce fossil ivory, 9 1/2 ' long and 2 5/8" wide.

A scene of ice bound whaling ships in the Arctic.

A scene of a tall ship in rough seas, watched by a lovely mermaid, the Siren who may have bewitched the sailors, luring them onto the rocks. Scribed onto a large section of elephant tusk.

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