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AEDRARE MAINE MARINE FAMILY SCRIMSHAWN 1881 POWDER HORN
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LiveFeb 21, 2026
We are pleased to open the 2026 auction year with Winter Enchantment, a three-day feature auction celebrating the breadth of American, European, and global art, design, and collectibles. Featuring newly discovered works by important Maine artists, alongside significant American and international art. The auction is further enriched by rare and historically important, museum-quality objects across a diversity of categories. Thomaston Place Auction Galleries info@thomastonauction.com
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RARE MAINE MARINE FAMILY SCRIMSHAWN 1881 POWDER HORN Outstanding Maritime Scrimshawn Powder Horn, on stand, by Louis Marc Francois Gauvin (born Saint-Servan, France, 1827; active Dalby and Paroo, Queensland, Australia), having full scrimshaw portrait of sailing ship "Ivanhoe" of Belfast, Maine, signed and dated 1881. Plus Masonic features and the family record of Captain Albert H. Herriman (born Dec. 19, 1839 in Bangor; married Ada H. Havener of Winterport, Maine (born Apr. 29, 1843), on Oct. 26, 1861. Three children are named. Albert Herriman was the brother of Captain Edwin Horace Herriman, who was the original captain of the Ivanhoe, but moved on to the "P. R. Hazeltine", launched on May 25, 1876. At 233 feet, 1836 tons from Carter's Yard, the ship was the largest vessel ever built in Belfast. She was driven ashore in dense fog on Cape Sable, Bay of Fundy off Cape Horn in Aug 1876. The captain and his wife and son were aboard and did survive, but the cargo, worth $500,000, did not. In 1893, Edwin Herriman died in an Augusta mental hospital, driven insane, it was thought, by the loss of the "Hazeltine". His home stands as an Inn, "The Mad Captain's House" on Congress Street in Belfast. Albert H. Herriman commanded the Ivanhoe from 1875 until its sale to a California coal firm in 1884. He captained the ship on frequent voyages to Australia, where Louis Gauvan was well-established as a creator of scrimshawn commemorative powder horns for visiting captains. After the Ivanhoe's sale, Herriman established a stevedoring agency in San Francisco, where he remained until after the Earthquake of 1906. He died in a home for retired seamen in Staten Island, NY in 1917. The Ivanhoe sailed into a gale off the coast of Seattle in 1894. It was never seen again. Size: 22 x 9 1/2 x 13 in. (55.9 x 24.1 x 33 cm.)
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Regarding Condition: Losses to bottom edge, missing wood plug.
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