ScrimshawMugs.com Other Sailboats Web Page ~ ScrimshawMugs.com © ~ by Clifton Art you can feel! Sailboats, Ships, Lighthouses, or Any Photo you provide! Now in 2 sizes! 8 oz (3 3/4" tall) & 12 oz (4 1/2" tall with non-skid bottom)

Hand-engraved unique custom scrimshaw mugs. An artform and craft by Clifton Bencke

Each mug is hand-engraved by the artist/craftsmen. Each one is a unique piece of art!

~ A. Other Sailboats ~

Scrimshaw made from any photograph

Order a collection of hand-engraved mugs of boats that you have owned, and of photos of memorable voyages you and your crew have sailed on...

~ Huntington Harbor Light, Long Island ~ 9/8/2001

For Boat, Home & Office... - Huntington Harbor Light -  A keepsake where you can actually feel the etched picture under your fingertips. (Engraved 2005) Hand-etched from your own photo. $22 Introductory Offer for 8 oz ($27 for 12 oz) See; "Note about photograph scrimshaw"

~My Call on Long Island Sound ~ Capture that memorable voyage with special friends...

For Boat, Home & Office... - Voyage With Friends -  A keepsake where you can actually feel the etched picture under your fingertips. (Engraved 2005) Hand-etched from your own photo. $22 Introductory Offer for 8 oz ($27 for 12 oz) See; "Note about photograph scrimshaw"

~ Loingseach ~ Delaware River

For Home & Office...   - Friend's Sailboat, Loingseach -  A keepsake where you can actually feel the etched picture under your fingertips. (Engraved 2005) Hand-etched from your own photo. $22 Introductory Offer for 8 oz ($27 for 12 oz) See; "Note about photograph scrimshaw"

~ Chutzpah ~ Hunter 37 Long Island Sound

For Home & Office...   ~ Chutzpah ~  A keepsake where you can actually feel the etched picture under your fingertips. Engraved 9/30/2005/2 Hand-etched from your own photo. $22 Introductory Offer for 8 oz ($27 for 12 oz) See; "Note about photograph scrimshaw"

Husband, wife and friend sailing their Precision 21

Scrimshaw Mug #4   ~ Rosalita III ~ Husband & wife sailing. (Third person removed from image. Motor removed from picture) 10/5/2005/4 in Iowa City, Iowa

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Note about Photograph Scrimshaw This is not a "Photo On Your Mug" product. This is part art form and part craft. If you provide a photo, the central item in your photo will be hand engraved into the mug. The background cut into the mug will be shading. Background details will not be included. See example comparisons above "Boy With Ice Cream," "Girl With Trophy" and "Friend's Sailboat".

What is scrimshaw? Scrimshaw is an American artform. It was a century-old pastime of indigenous Americans along the Northwest Coast, then adopted and spread by world-traveling whaling seafarers of the 1700's & 1800's. With often long periods between chasing a whale and processing its oil for lamp fuel (in a time before refined petroleum fuels), whalers took the teeth, bones, jawbones, and baleen of the whale and scratched pictures into the surface. They used whatever sharp steel instrument was available for engraving such as their knives and sail needles. Various resources were used to color the lines including such things as rubbing in lamp black and whale oil, sepia (cuttlefish ink), and tobacco juice into the engraved lines to bring out the picture. Affordable scrimshaw- My goal is to follow the form of the original sailor-artist. This was the voyager who was trying to tell a story. I hope you'll let me help you tell your story. ScrimshawMugs.com -Clifton

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