Sold for:
$356
$356
Five Bone and Marine Ivory Implements, 18th to 19th century, a steel corkscrew with bone handle, lg. 5 3/4; carved crochet hook terminating in a hand, lg. 7 1/2; a carved lace-making tool with screw top, lg. 3 7/8; a needle-holder with gilt-metal inlay and screw top, lg. 3 1/2; and a polychrome carved sailor's trinket modeled as a standing figure, signed indistinctly on the base, ht. 2 3/4 in. Corkscrew with shrinkage cracks to bone and small spots of rust to steel. Lace-making tool and needle-holder with minor chips. Sailor's trinket with some loss to paint.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-07-09
