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A COCONUT SHELL AND SCRIMSHAW LADLE
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A COCONUT SHELL AND SCRIMSHAW LADLE
PROBABLY NEW ENGLAND, MID-19TH CENTURY
The pointed ovoid bowl with rope-turned handle terminating in a bone tip scrimshawed with five sperm whales and an applied mother-of-pearl disk scrimshawed with a four-point compass-star--19½in. length
PROBABLY NEW ENGLAND, MID-19TH CENTURY
The pointed ovoid bowl with rope-turned handle terminating in a bone tip scrimshawed with five sperm whales and an applied mother-of-pearl disk scrimshawed with a four-point compass-star--19½in. length