Details
A SCRIMSHAWED WHALEBONE AND BALEEN BOX
AMERICAN, 19TH CENTURY
The circular baleen lid engraved with a fully rigged ship surrounded by four sperm whales and four blue whales above a carved whalebone edge with crocket shaped tab over a conforming box with crocket shaped tab (baleen lid separated)--1¾in. high, 5¾in. diameter
AMERICAN, 19TH CENTURY
The circular baleen lid engraved with a fully rigged ship surrounded by four sperm whales and four blue whales above a carved whalebone edge with crocket shaped tab over a conforming box with crocket shaped tab (baleen lid separated)--1¾in. high, 5¾in. diameter
Provenance
The Blue Door Antiques, Bridgehampton, N.Y., 1975