Elaborately Decorated Swordfish Bill Sword

Description:

Elaborately Decorated Swordfish Bill Sword, c. 1934, the blade with polychrome painted eagle and flags, swordfish, shark, and shield, carved and painted serpent's head handle, back of the blade inscribed "PAINTED/BY K.L. McLean/This sword fish was/caught off St. Pauls Island/Gulf of St. Lawrence," the handle inscribed "1934 BOSTON MASS," lg. 41 in.
Estimate $2,000-3,000


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