SOLD FOR $5,400

Sailor’s Folk Art Toy Whalebone Mounted Wheelbarrow, mid 19th century, shaped oak box on frame with carved whalebone braces, cleats, and ferrules, iron bound wheel with mahogany spokes inserting into turned whalebone hub, brass axles held by whalebone sockets.
Height 9 ¼ in. Length 31 in. Width 14 ½ in.

Exhibitions: Smithsonian Institute,
Mystic Seaport Museum

Provenance:
Barbara Johnson Collection,
Sotheby’s September 25, 1982
Catalog lot 533

The Carol and Stephen Memishian
19th C. Scrimshaw Collection