Remember Me

[anteros_lmc]

You come across all sorts of things on maritime auction sites, but it's fair to say I have never seen anything quite like this before! Well I have, but not in a maritime auction ;) In case you're in any doubt, the catalogue entry describes it as a "rare piece of nautical art, a scrimshaw hollow container with a lid in the form of a phallus.

Comments

[eglantine_br]

I wondered that too. The women of Nantucket were notorious for opium use. Maybe you were supposed to keep your opium in there. (But it was probably something more boring like thimbles!)

[anteros_lmc]

Maybe you were supposed to keep your opium in there.
Y'know that's the first thing I thought of. Perfect place to hide your stash!

it was probably something more boring like thimbles!
Tbh I think I'd be more surprised to find thimbles in there than opium!

[rikibeth]

I NEED TO PUT THIS IN THE NEXT NOVEL.

[anteros_lmc]

XD I am going to have to start charging you for props and plot devices!

[rikibeth]

Free copies?

[kittycallum]

Crazy thing is, I'd never heard of these until you posted this, and then two days later I opened a book on the tragedy of the whaleship Essex -- and the first page I turned to was about Nantucket women and the 'he's-at-home'! I burst out laughing ... in the middle of a silent library. It was a very odd coincidence.

[anteros_lmc]

Huzzah! nodbear and I have a mission to make fangirls behave disgracefully in libraries. We once got a stern telling off for giggling from the Special Collections librarian at Glasgow Uni. There was only one other person in the room at the time XD