SOLD FOR $71,920.00 August 6, 2011. A carved Ivory Fist Clenching a snake coiled about the hand and wrist, with inlaid eyes and extended forked tongue; above carved and chamfered tortoise shell inlaid long panels, the octagonal whalebone shaft inlaid about half way down with abalone, mother of pearl, tortoise shell and wax with seven baleen spacers. A Captain’s walking stick by the same hand, from the Barbara Johnson Collection, sold in the Osona Auction Room, August 13, 1994 Lot #147, setting a world record at the time of $49,000.
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