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Ten Whalebone Objects
Lot: 1090UnsoldTen Whalebone Objects, America, 19th century, including three turned bodkins, and seven small busks or "playing bones," lg. to 10 in. more ...
Scrimshaw-decorated Baleen Plaque
Lot: 1091UnsoldScrimshaw-decorated Baleen Plaque, early 19th century, the curving piece of baleen decorated with two small sailing vessels, a whale's tail, a three-masted vessel, and a lighthouse, (fraying, more ...
Scrimshaw-decorated Whalebone Busk
Lot: 1092Sold for: $1,722$1,400Scrimshaw-decorated Whalebone Busk, America, 19th century, one shaped and one rounded end, decorated on one side with a central panel depicting a whaleship flying an American flag, a harpooned more ...
Small Scrimshaw-decorated Whalebone Busk
Lot: 1093Sold for: $1,599$1,300Small Scrimshaw-decorated Whalebone Busk, America, 19th century, with one shaped and one peaked end, decorated on one side with patriotic and military motifs including cannon, a sailing vessel, an more ...
Scrimshaw-decorated Whalebone Busk
Lot: 1094Sold for: $738$600Scrimshaw-decorated Whalebone Busk, America, 19th century, one shaped and one rounded end, composed of stars and pinwheels above a sailing vessel flying the American flag, highlighted with red and more ...
Scrimshaw-decorated Baleen Busk
Lot: 1095Sold for: $861$700Scrimshaw-decorated Baleen Busk, America, 19th century, one rounded and one shaped end, one side with foliate motifs centering the initials "S.M," the other with varied designs including a more ...
Scrimshaw-decorated Baleen Busk
Lot: 1096Sold for: $400$325Scrimshaw-decorated Baleen Busk, America, 19th century, slightly tapered form with rounded ends with incised carving of flowers and foliate devices, the reverse with faint presentation inscription, more ...
Scrimshaw-decorated Baleen Busk
Lot: 1097Sold for: $1,599$1,300Scrimshaw-decorated Baleen Busk, America, mid-19th century, one shaped end and one pointed end, decorated on one side with pictorial motifs including an anchor, a square-rigged vessel, a shield more ...
Scrimshaw-decorated Baleen Busk
Lot: 1098UnsoldScrimshaw-decorated Baleen Busk, America, 19th century, slightly tapered form with rounded ends decorated on one side with sections depicting a sailing vessel, two figures, a diamond centering the more ...
Scrimshaw-decorated Wooden Busk
Lot: 1099UnsoldScrimshaw-decorated Wooden Busk, America, 19th century, with one shaped and one rounded end, decorated with geometric devices centering a central reserve with crossed branches highlighted with green more ...
Turned and Stipple-decorated Maple Rolling Pin
Lot: 1100Sold for: $123$100Turned and Stipple-decorated Maple Rolling Pin, America, mid-19th century, with turned handles, slightly swelled form decorated with a whale and lettered "ELLEN," lg. 16 1/2 in. more ...
Dark Brown Etched Blown Glass Rolling Pin "LOOK OUT FOR SQUALLS/JACK 1847,"
Lot: 1101Sold for: $400$325Dark Brown Etched Blown Glass Rolling Pin "LOOK OUT FOR SQUALLS/JACK 1847," probably England, mid-19th century, decorated with marine imagery including anchors and sailing vessels, and with an image more ...
Pair of Bone Playing Pieces
Lot: 1102UnsoldPair of Bone Playing Pieces, 19th century, two lengths of polished bone with rounded ends, lg. 5 1/4, wd. 7/8 in. more ...
Two Sailor's Bags
Lot: 1103Sold for: $461$375Two Sailor's Bags, 19th century, each of cylindrical form with hand-stitched bodies, one constructed of heavy linen canvas, the other of heavy cotton canvas with a wood and leather bottom, ht. to more ...
Six Sailor-made Items
Lot: 1104Sold for: $338$275Six Sailor-made Items, England or America, 19th century, including a punchwork-decorated leather knife holster with knife, a canvas sleeve for a small spyglass containing a spyglass, a more ...
Pair of Cord-wrapped Leather and Fabric Becket Handles
Lot: 1105Sold for: $400$325Pair of Cord-wrapped Leather and Fabric Becket Handles, 19th century, the blue fabric "monkey fists" joined by a red leather-wrapped post around which the leather- and cord-wrapped handles are more ...
Pair of Carved Mahogany and Painted Ropework Becket Handles
Lot: 1106Sold for: $677$550Pair of Carved Mahogany and Painted Ropework Becket Handles, America, early 19th century, the carved mahogany brackets ornamented with stars, the elaborate ropework handles painted dark blue, more ...
Pair of Canvas-covered Ropework Becket Handles
Lot: 1107Sold for: $308$250Pair of Canvas-covered Ropework Becket Handles, America, probably early 20th century, lg. 8 1/4 in. more ...
Group of Ropework or Ropework-decorated Items
Lot: 1108Sold for: $277$225Group of Ropework or Ropework-decorated Items, 19th century, including a shallow covered cylindrical basket, and three ropework-decorated bottles, ht. to 13, dia. to 10 in. more ...
Carved Teak Wooden Knife Made From the Deck Planking of the Schooner "America,"
Lot: 1109UnsoldCarved Teak Wooden Knife Made From the Deck Planking of the Schooner "America," spiral carved handle with a straight blade, (blade detached from handle),lg. 8 3/4 in. more ...
Carved Bone and Metal Button Hook
Lot: 1110UnsoldCarved Bone and Metal Button Hook, 19th century, ring-carved handle with geometric designs and a plated steel hook, lg. 12 3/8 in. more ...
Carved Ivory Pipe
Lot: 1111Sold for: $185$150Carved Ivory Pipe, America, late 19th century, the tapering bowl ornamented with rope carving, the stem with carved fish, overall lg. 8 in. more ...
Parasol with Carved Dog Handle
Lot: 1112UnsoldParasol with Carved Dog Handle, 19th century, blue silk canopy with wooden struts, the upper wooden shaft, hinged at the midpoint then continuing to a carved bone handle, ending in a dog's head, more ...
Small Horn Flask
Lot: 1113UnsoldSmall Horn Flask, early 20th century, surface incised with initials "LS" and the dates "1903" and "1911," flat wood base, lg. 4 1/4 in. more ...
Two Whale Ivory and Fish Vertebrae Canes
Lot: 1114UnsoldTwo Whale Ivory and Fish Vertebrae Canes, America, 19th century, with whale's tooth handles and stacked vertebrae shafts, lg. 37 1/4, 35 in. more ...
Pair of Scrimshaw-decorated Walrus Tusks
Lot: 1115Sold for: $738$600Pair of Scrimshaw-decorated Walrus Tusks, America, 19th century, one tusk carved on one side with two women, one of whom stands in front of a mirrored bureau, and a mustachioed military officer, and more ...
Four Carved Whalebone or Walrus Ivory Objects
Lot: 1116UnsoldFour Carved Whalebone or Walrus Ivory Objects, America, late 19th/early 20th century, a whalebone fishing lure with barbed iron hook, a pair of baleen-mounted tweezers, a brass-mounted parallel, and more ...
Scrimshaw-decorated Walrus Tusk Cribbage Board
Lot: 1117Sold for: $221$180Scrimshaw-decorated Walrus Tusk Cribbage Board, probably Alaska, early 20th century, carved on the playing surface side with a whale among icebergs and a floral device, and on the reverse with a more ...
Scrimshaw-decorated Baleen Plaque
Lot: 1118UnsoldScrimshaw-decorated Baleen Plaque, Betty Hughey, Barrow, Alaska, early 20th century, with two walruses on ice floes, signed and inscribed by the maker at lower right, (slight fraying, edge losses, more ...
White-painted and Polychrome Decorated Carved Pine "Don't Give Up the Ship" Plaque
Lot: 1119Sold for: $2,829$2,300White-painted and Polychrome Decorated Carved Pine "Don't Give Up the Ship" Plaque, John Haley Bellamy (Kittery, Maine, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1836-1914),the spreadwing eagle surmounted by more ...