Description:
Carved "Dove Peace" Whale Ivory and Baleen Cane, Massachusetts, c. 1865, the carved dove knob above a braided baleen sailor's knot spacer and shaft of wrapped baleen with two whale ivory doves, and a whale ivory tip, lg. 35 3/4 in.
Provenance: Barbara Johnson Collection.
Literature: Catherine Dike, Canes in the United States (Cane Curiosa Press: Ladue, Missouri, 1994),p. 217.
Estimate $2,500-3,000
Minor shrinkage cracks in the head and at pins of applied birds, minor looseness to baleen wrapping.
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