Nine Sailor's Artifacts

Nine Sailor's Artifacts, America, 19th century, three bone double sheave blocks and one bone single sheave blocks, three are composed of several pieces, one is mortised; a small single mortised wooden block, a segment of an ivory and bone sewing stand, a whalebone serving mallet (used by the sailmaker to wind cordage around a wire stay), a "Meerschaum" pipe in original case, and a nickel-plated brass case containing a one-pound brass weight, dia. 2 5/8-7 1/2 in. Provenance: Descendants of the Swain and Clark families of Nantucket.