Whaler Made Architectural Walking Stick, 19th Century, the large antique whale ivory right hand clenched fist carved from a sperm whale tooth with double cuff shirt sleeve with 2 silver buttons, the multi-reeded section with three baleen spacers; the whalebone shaft with a four-column cage and an interior diamond crosshatch post, supported by cube carvings with baleen dots, above a fluted section to a tapering diamond crosshatch whalebone shaft ending in plain ferrule
Length 37.75 in.
Provenance: The Estate of Carol A. Rosenthal, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts
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