SOLD FOR $56,400
Extraordinary Whaleman Carved Whale Ivory and Whalebone Walking Stick, circa 1840, finely carved ivory hand grasping a stippled snake about to strike with cut copper fangs, leather eyes, red polychrome mouth wrapped around the wrist and forearm, baleen spacer, on an octagonal paneled tapering to smooth whalebone shaft.
Length 34 ¼ in.