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110. RARE WHALEMAN MADE NANTUCKET WHALEBONE DOLL’S ROPE BED, circa 1840, with matching
headboard and footboard supported by block and turned posts, with period postage stamp patchwork quilt and crocheted coverlet, two
linen covered pillows and two sheets.
Height 12 ¾ in. Length 12 ½ in. Width 8 ½ in.
8,000/12,000
Provenance: Vallejo Gallery 2011, Thomas A. Gray Collection
111. RARE WHALER MADE WHALE IVORY AND WHALEBONE CHILD’S WALKING STICK, circa 1860, in
5-sections, the large whale ivory knob line carved and inlaid with baleen dots and finishing as an octagonal wafer pinned to a panel
and line section above a twisted section with an ivory band also ivory, pegged to a tapering
worm-line rope twist ending in a long whale ivory ferrule.
Length 28 ¾ in.
4,000/6,000
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