SOLD FOR $7,200
Whaleman Carved Whale Ivory and Whalebone Presentation Walking Stick, circa 1850, very finely scribed whale ivory knob with 20 concentric circles, with a silver gilt collar on a paneled and turned tapering shaft inscribed, “Presented to John Dunham By Captain G. H. Kempton.”
Length 33 ¼ in.

Note: G. H. Kempton is recorded as Master of the ship Orphan, sailing between New York and Le Havre, France (1856) and of the bark Clyde, between New York and Mobile Alabama (1851). Source: Carl Cutler, The Story of America’s Mail and Passenger Sailing Lines, Annapolis, MD, US Naval Institute, 1961.

SOLD FOR $1,200
Whaleman Carved Whale Ivory and Whalebone Pointer, 19th century, the tapering whalebone shaft with spiraling worm-line carving, baleen spacers, ivory tip and ring-collared whale ivory bulbous grip.
Length 22 in.