Sold for:
$1,007
$1,007
Thirteen Mariner Related Items, Nantucket, Massachusetts, 19th century, carved whalebone and ivory items: two fids, a seam rubber, a crochet hook and probable crochet hook handle, a pointed ivory handle, a bobbin, a small busk, two folding rulers, a manicure utensil, and a turned ivory seal heightened with red sealing wax accompanied by a document signed by mariner Albert S. Clark in which the seal was used, dia. 1 1/2-7 in. Provenance: Descendants of the Swain and Clark families of Nantucket.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-03-07
