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Thirty-five Sailor-made Whalebone Sewing Items and Whimseys, 19th century, including seven knitting tools, eight bodkins, three needle cases, two thread winders, one pincushion, two thimbles, one thimble case, one tape measure, a ribbon of buttons, one awl, one pen, an egg-shaped box with a smaller egg-shaped box inside, two mustard spoons, a turned whimsey, two carved fish, and a small doll, lg. to 7 in.


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