03-03-201303-03-2013
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2640BBoston
March 3, 2013 10:00 AMCalender
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Collection of Small Scrimshaw Items

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$1,800$1,500
Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2640BLocation: BostonDate / Time: March 03, 2013 10:00AM

Description:

Collection of Small Scrimshaw Items, mostly carved ivory, baleen, and bone, including a slide-lid box containing twenty-eight bone and ebonized wood dominoes, two ivory clamps, a bone-handled brass seal, a whistle, a game piece, an oval lapped-seam baleen box engraved with three houses, nine bodkins, one ornately carved with abalone inlay, a carved bone seam rubber topped with a clenched fist, a clothespin, ivory and baleen lady's leg handle, a small bone cup device with engraved sperm whale figure, six ivory or bone folding tool devices, one with toothpick ear spoon and two-tine fork, a knife-form letter opener, a miniature dagger with sheath and metal blade, a miniature ball peen hammer, a snuff spoon, a tubular wood case containing a crochet hook and two picks, a fish figure, a turned bone handle with iron hook, and ten ebonized wood and bone dominoes, (losses),dia. 1 3/4 to 5 5/8 in.
Estimate $800-1,200

baleen box missing some pieces on the seam and base edge three of the folding tool devices are missing thier tools,


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Keywords

bone cup device, carved bone seam rubber, metal blade, bone folding tool devices, thier tools