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409. WHALER MADE WHALE IVORY PIE CRIMPER, circa 1850,
multi-turned and scribed handle with abalone dot inlay with zigzag cutting wheel.
Length 6 in.
300/500
410. WHALER SCRIMSHAWED AND POLYCHROMED SPERM
WHALE TOOTH, circa 1820, depicting a portrait of a fully rigged gunboat with a
red flag on green water.
Height 4 ½ in.
700/1,000
411. WHALER CARVED WHALE IVORY AND WHALEBONE
“GOING ASHORE” WALKING STICK, 19 th century, with a paneled club
grip on smooth tapering whalebone shaft.
Length 35 ¼ in.
1,000/2,000
412. WHALER CARVED WHALEBONE TURK’S TURBAN
WALKING STICK, 19 th century, baleen spacer, wax inlaid triangles, continuing
to hatch carved spiral to plain shaft.
Length 33 ½ in.
1,500/2,500
413. WHALER MADE WHALE IVORY CARVED TURK’S TURBAN
KNOB WALKING STICK, 19 th century, the knob tapers to two baleen and
whale ivory spacers to a worm-line carved whalebone shaft which tapers to plain,
with copper ferrule (separation to the ivory grip).
Length 33 in.
1,000/1,500
414. WHALER MADE WHALE IVORY KNOB WALKING STICK,
19 th century, continuing to a turned whalebone tapering shaft.
Length 32 ½ in.
800/1,200
415. WHALEMAN MADE “MOTHER’S HELPER” WHALE
IVORY PIE CRIMPER, circa 1850, shaped grip with hook end and a
pinned solid zigzag wheel.
Length 4 ½ in.
500/700
Provenance: Thomas A. Gray Collection
416. WHALEMAN CARVED WHALE IVORY STUDY OF A
PREENING SWAN, circa 1840-1850.
Length 3 ½ in.
800/1,200
Provenance: Paul Madden Antiques: 2010, Thomas A. Gray Collection
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