$1,800
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.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-03-03
