Large Whaleman Made Panbone Ditty Box with Abalone Star Inlaid Tropical Wood Top, circa 1850,
with four refined bulbous finger laps, each finely shaped as a cupid’s bow with round terminus and silver studs, the tropical hardwood top with a central inlaid abalone and mother-of-pearl six-point star.
Height 5 in. Width 9 ¾ in. Depth 7 in.
Provenance: Heller Washam;
Thomas A. Gray Scrimshaw Collection