Offered: August 6, 2016
SOLD FOR $480 Sailor Scrimshaw Whalebone Corset Busk, mid 19th Century, inscribed and inked in black with geometric motifs and jardinière issuing blossoming vine centering script initials “B.K.W.” Length 14 ½ in. Provenance: Ex-E. Ham Collection, Nantucket Sam Sylvia, Nantucket, MA The Carol and Stephen Memishian 19th C. Scrimshaw Collection
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Whalebone and Ivory Marking Gauge, 19th century, the oval ivory plate brass mounted and adjusting with thumb screw along a D-section whalebone shaft with brass scriber. Length 8 in. Provenance: Frank Sylvia, Nantucket, MA The Carol and Stephen Memishian 19th Century Scrimshaw Collection
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Sailor Scrimshaw Whalebone Busk, 19th century, engraved with flag draped obelisk over tower with weathervane, palm trees, crowns, conjoined hearts and Lady Liberty. Length 14 ½ in. Provenance: Richard A Bourne, Hyannis, MA 15 November 1991, Lot 88 The Carol and Stephen Memishian 19th Century Scrimshaw Collection
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Sailor Scrimshaw Whalebone Busk, 19th century, engraved with figures of three children playing musical instruments. Length 14 in. Provenance: Rafael Osona Auctions, Nantucket, MA 22 August 1992, Lot 184 The Carol and Stephen Memishian 19th Century Scrimshaw Collection
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SOLD FOR $2,400 Carved and Turned Whalebone and Satinwood Clock Stand, 19th century, rectangular with scalloped apron on turned legs. Height 3 in. Length 14 ¼ in. Width 7 ¼ in. Provenance: Rafael Osona Auctions, Nantucket, MA 14 August 1993 Lot 46 Ex-Barbara Johnson Collection The Carol and Stephen Memishian 19th Century Scrimshaw Collection
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SOLD FOR $48,000 Extremely Rare and Fine “Map Tooth” Sailor Scrimshaw Whale Tooth, American, mid 19th century, delicately incised in exquisite detail with map and chart of New Bedford Harbor, Buzzards Bay and the Elizabeth Islands, depicted center is a whaling ship’s return to port, showing its plotted course verso with an action filled whaling scene, a ship and four boats (one stove) hunt amidst a pod of whales spewing red-inked blood. Length 7 ½ in. Provenance: Nina Hellman, Nantucket, MA The Carol and Stephen […]
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SOLD FOR $1,800 Scrimshaw Decorated Mahogany and Mother-of-Pearl Parquetry Box, 19th century, rectangular with hinged top, inlaid with baleen, whalebone and abalone motifs and stringing overall, the front centered by a scrimshanded whale ivory plaquette engraved and inked in red and black with “Triumph of Love”. Height 4 ¾ in. Length 12 in. Width 8 ¼ in. Provenance: Rafael Osona Auctions, Nantucket, MA 19 August 1995 Lot 69 The Carol and Stephen Memishian 19th Century Scrimshaw Collection
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SOLD FOR $480 Whale Ivory Heart Shaped Needle Holder, 19th century, with heart shaped tortoiseshell inlay, pierced for attachment. Length 2 ½ in. Provenance: Rafael Osona Auctions, Nantucket, MA 16 August 1997 SOLD FOR $480 Whale Ivory Square Needle Holder, 19th century, pierced with four hearts, on triangular rosewood stand. Height 1 ¾ in. Length 1 ½ in. Stand Length 2 in. Provenance: Nina Hellman, Nantucket, MA Literature: Illustrated p.223 E. Norman Flayderman, Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, New Milford, CT, 1972 Both lots from the Carol […]
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Vasiform Pickwick, 19th century, turned mahogany and whalebone with metal pick. Height 5 ¾ in. Provenance: Robert C. Eldred, South Dennis, MA 21 November 1992, Lot 552 Three Whalebone Clothespins, 19th century. Length 4 ¾ in. Whalebone Seam Rubber, 19th century, with incised initials “E” and “S”. Length 4 in. Provenance: Richard A. Bourne, Hyannis, MA 21 October, 1992 Lot 16 All from the Carol and Stephen Memishian 19th C. Scrimshaw collection
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Group of Three Whale Ivory Bodkins, 19th century, turned decoration, one with loose rings, another with spherules in contemporary stand. Length 3 ½ in. to 4 in. each Provenance: Rafael Osona Auctions, Nantucket, MA 14 August 1993, Lot 78 The Carol and Stephen Memishian 19th C. Scrimshaw Collection
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