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eBay pounces on illegal scrimshaw auctions

Added to the Old Boat Blog on January 30, 2008 at 10:37 am EST

This is part 2 of our “special rare scrimshaw sale” watch. See the original page here.

Update: all auctions closed early!
We were going to post updates on these 5 auctions from “arik619″ once a day until they were finished, but all the auctions have been closed. Apparently the seller was misleading about the origin and provenance of his scrimshaw, and was trying to sell illegal pieces.

Evidently eBay shut the auctions down and cancelled all the bids.

So our plan has turned into a big nothing. But at least we now know that eBay does apparently try to stay vigilant and not promote the killing of whales for crafts.

We’ll look for some other auction to track soon. In the meantime check out some legal scrimshaw for sale. And we’ll try to choose a seller next time who isn’t such a loser.

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