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430. SMOKERS BOX CHALET, 19 th century, the house form box hinges to expose cigar caddie adorned with carved bone door,
windows, chimney and house trims.
Height 7 in. Width 7 in. Depth 8 in.
600/800
Provenance: Skinners 2009, Thomas A. Gray Collection
431. FINE WHALEMAN CARVED WHALE
IVORY BOSUN’S WHISTLE, circa 1860, a fine
execution of a bust of a lady with braided hair.
Height 3 in.
600/800
Provenance: Kahn Fine Antiques 2013,
Thomas A. Gray Collection
432. FINELY CARVED WHALEBONE BODKIN,
19 th century, depicting George Washington’s head, and engraved
G. Washington, 1770.
Length 4 ½ in.
400/600
Provenance: Michael R. Seward 2012, Thomas A. Gray Collection
433. GROUP OF FOUR WHALE IVORY BODKINS,
circa 1850-1870, from the left: 1st in two sections, the grip
finely turned with a baleen spacer to a tapering spike with three
scribe lines; the 2nd a clenched fist holding a rope with two
baleen spacers; the 3rd a carved ladies leg with boot, with thin
baleen spacer to a tapering spike; 4th the upper section of whale
ivory with pierced hearts stippled and openwork dowelled to a
whalebone turned tapering spike.
Lengths: 7 ½ in. ,5 in., 5 in., 6 in. respectively
700/1,000
Provenance: Thomas A. Gray Collection
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