SOLD FOR $11,400
Whaleman Made Watch Tower, circa 1850, the hold and face plate of whalebone surmounted with an ivory dome with tortoise inlays and silver stars and three removable scrolled spikes, flanked by a full pair of antique sperm whale teeth with a silver stave and tortoise inlaid base step, all on a cut corner rectangular tortoise shell base with silver plaques. The edge of whalebone and inlaid tortoise plaques on ivory ball feet.
Height 8 in. Width 8 ⅞ in. Depth 4 in.

Note: A watch tower by the same hand is illustrated page 213 of E. Norman Flayderman’s Scrimshaw and Scrimshander, Whales and Whalemen.