Fancy Sailor Made Inlaid and Polychromed Double Scrimshaw Swift, circa 1850, known as the Baroque swift, one of 3 by this hand to date. The 2nd in a private collection and the 3rd at the New Bedford Whaling Museum and illustrated on page 278-279 in Stuart Frank’s “Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved Scrimshaw in the New Bedford Whaling Museum”. Among the three, this swift is the only one with dot inlaid ribs. The top turned finial unscrews to accommodate a wood ball to rest on the cup, whale ivory clasp, cup finial. Original green stained fitted box.

Sold for $57,120.00