Details
A CAST IRON HARPOON
MARKED, "R. BROWN PATD 1850"
The straight sided shaft with raised edges and open cylindrical mount terminating in a pointed double diamond-head end with flexible barbed appendages; together with a wrought iron double-toggle harpoon with flaring mount and single pointed end flanked by flexible barbs, and a coconut shell bailer--35½in. length the largest
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MARKED, "R. BROWN PATD 1850"
The straight sided shaft with raised edges and open cylindrical mount terminating in a pointed double diamond-head end with flexible barbed appendages; together with a wrought iron double-toggle harpoon with flaring mount and single pointed end flanked by flexible barbs, and a coconut shell bailer--35½in. length the largest
(3)
Provenance
Sotheby's New York, The Barbara Johnson Collection, Part I, 12 December 1981, lot 365