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195. SPECIAL AND SOPHISTICATED WHALEBONE AND
WHALE IVORY SWIFT, circa 1845, thirty-two polychrome hairline
scrimshawed concentric circles in blue and red on ivory finial cup and
barrel form clamp with blind clamp screw, a double bone exterior cage with
reeded ribs and an unusual two-on-one silver riveted reeded fan interior
bone cage support, sixty-four reeded staves.
Provenance: Edouard Stackpole Collection; Barbara Johnson Collection, Sold
Sotheby’s “The Barbara Johnson Whaling Collection: Part II,” September 24-25,
1982, to private collector.
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