305 . NANTUCKET WHALEBONE AND WHALE IVORY SWIFT , circa 1845 , thirty-two polychromed 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 , Sold Sotheby ’ s The Barbara Johnson Whaling Collection : Part II , September 24-25 , 1982 , to present owner .
306 . FINE AMERICAN WHALEMAN MADE WHALE IVORY ARCHITECTURAL PIE CRIMPER , circa 1860 , outstanding zigzag and open-work teardrops with dots pinned to one-of-two carved open x-square pattern cages , the other with a loose ball within a smaller cage flanked by reeded sections and delicate twisted columns , urn turned finial . Length 7 in .
Provenance : Descended in the Howland Family to the Present Owner . The Howland family of New Bedford arrived on the Mayflower in Plymouth in in 1630 . During the voyage in a gale John Howland fell overboard and was pulled back aboard the Mayflower . He became a signer of the Mayflower Compact and had eight children and 88 grandchildren . Many of his ancestors became extremely successful in the whaling industry . Among the descendants of the Howland family was Henrietta Howland Robinson , a woman of two great whaling fortunes . By the age of 30 in 1865 , she had inherited the equivalent of $ 80 million dollars . When she died , fifty years later her nickname was “ Hetty ” the witch of Wall Street and had built a fortune equaling several billion dollars in today ’ s currency . The Howland family name became synonymous with the most successful period in American whaling .
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