Details
A WHALEBONE ALPHABET
AMERICAN, 19TH CENTURY
Comprising approximately 425 carved whalebone letters, some painted red or green, all in a turned and faux tortoiseshell-painted cylindrical box--½in. high each letter;, 3in. high, 3¾in. diam. the box
AMERICAN, 19TH CENTURY
Comprising approximately 425 carved whalebone letters, some painted red or green, all in a turned and faux tortoiseshell-painted cylindrical box--½in. high each letter;, 3in. high, 3¾in. diam. the box
Provenance
Sotheby's New York, The Barbara Johnson Whaling Collection, Part III, 29 and 30 April 1983, lot 284