POSSIBLY MID 19TH CENTURY

Details

A treen sailmaker's liner
Possibly mid 19th century
Carved with a clenched fist and ropetwist ornament
5 1/8in. (13cm.) long;
And a lignum vitae sailmaker's needle, 18th century -- 10¼in. (26cm.) long (2)

Provenance

Levi Collection numbers 1184 and 277 respectively.

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Lot Essay

Comparative Literature:
Edward H. Pinto, Treen and other Wooden Bygones, Bell and Hyman, London 1969. Page 314. (knitting needle). Owen Evan-Thomas, Domestic Utensils of Wood, Stobart-Davies, Hertfordshire 1973. Similar examples illustrated pl.62, fig's E, F, G & H.

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