Sold for:
$326
$326
Thirty Small Scrimshaw Items, 19th century, ivory items including five small spoons, small clamp with thread spool, two needle cases, a round covered box containing a compass, four miniature whaling implements, a bodkin in a case, and tamper-like device; bone items include five bodkins, one with a clenched fist terminal, three tampers, a butter spreader, two apple corers (one in a case), and three crochet hooks; and a wooden jagging wheel, lg. 2 1/8-5 1/2 in. Compass needle detached, crack to ivory in interior, cased apple corer has losses to the wooden corer,
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2009-02-15
