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168. AMERICAN WHALER MADE WATCH TOWER, circa 1850, fashioned of
whalebone on pine in the form of a Federal grandfather’s clock, the bonnet goose neck
pediment with 3-turned finials above a dome face with baleen arch inlay, flanked by
4-fully turned columns on a slender body with raised door. The base is molded and has a
cut-corner raised panel supported on French bracket feet and the top has a whalebone dust
cover.
Height 16 in. Width 3 ½ in. Depth 2 in.
6,000/8,000
169. PAIR OF WHALEBONE AND WHALE IVORY KNITTING NEEDLES, circa 1840-60, delicately carved ivory
preening swan tops with 11 baleen, ivory, and wood spacers on tapering bone needle shafts.
Length 15 ¼ in.
1,500/2,500
Provenance: Eldred’s 2011, Thomas A. Gray Collection
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