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Gift Items
Our museum shop at the Whaling Museum will be open weekends from now until Christmas and has a variety of interesting items, any of which can also be purchased by mail to Box 1016, Nantucket, Ma. 02554. Polymer Ivory. New this year, polymer ivory has the look and feel of actual whale bone, but is organic and did not come from either whale or elephant. The scrimshaw is of the highest quality, much of it copies of treasured originals from our and other maritime museums. Pieces are priced from $12.00 to $50.00. We have stickpins and pendants in ivory and bone, scrimshawed with flowers, birds, and ships from $5.00 to $20.00. Also, we have boxes of note paper with the Old Mill, Oldest House, and the Lightship for $1.25, and a number of excellent prints. Books on Nantucket make a welcome gift and are easily mailed. The following are among the most popular: THE CLOCK THAT TALKS AND WHAT IT TELLSWill Gardner hard cover; the story of an Island genius, Walter Folger, Congressman, astronomer, mathematician, lawyer, judge, philosopher, and clockmaker,, and the famous clock he built. The man who was as "odd as huckleberry chowder".
$2.75
THREE BRICKS AND THREE BROTHERS—Will Gardner, paperback. Authentic Nantucket story of 3 brick mansions built by daring adventurers in whaling; foreword by Austin Strong, plus a collection of beautiful gravure pictures.
$3.50
TRIUMPHANT CAPTAIN JOHN-Will Gardner, hard cover. An interesting account of John Gardner who contributed so much to the establishment of Nantucket and John's family history. Also special chapter about 12 early colonial founders named Gardner or Gardiner.
$3.00
NANTUCKET IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION— Stackpole, soft cover. The story of how the Island sur vived the grim years from 1775 through 1783 is unlike that
$3.95
