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Private Collection, New York
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RETICULATED WHALE IVORY CRIMPER Mid-19th Century Handle and shaft with elaborate scrolled designs. Shaft constructed of twin pierced panels pinned to the handle. Fluted wheel. Length 9”. Includes a metal stand. 7,000/9,000
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RETICULATED WHALE IVORY CRIMPER Mid-19th Century Handle and shaft with openwork geometric and scrolled designs. Handle with diamonds, crosses and opposing hearts. Shaft constructed of twin pierced panels pinned to the handle. Panels with carved columnar design at edges and a central band pierced with an opposing heart and cross design. Fluted wheel. Length 7.75”. Includes a metal stand. 3,500/5,000
Similar examples to these four, possibly by the same hand, were sold as part of the Thomas Mittler Scrimshaw Collection during Eldred’s Marine Sale, July 20, 2017, Lot #28. Other similar examples are illustrated in Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen by E. Norman Flayderman (New
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RETICULATED WHALE IVORY CRIMPER Mid-19th Century Handle and shaft with openwork designs including diamonds, crosses and opposing hearts arranged into blossoms. Shaft constructed of twin pierced panels pinned to the handle. Fluted wheel. Marked “NH160”, indicating it was from the collection of Meylert Armstrong of Greenwich, Connecticut and New Hope, Pennsylvania. Length 6.75”. Includes a metal stand. 3,000/5,000 Illustrated in Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen by E. Norman Flayderman (New Milford, Ct.: N. Flayderman & Co., Inc., 1972), p. 178.
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RETICULATED WHALE IVORY CRIMPER Mid-19th Century Handle and shaft with openwork design of diamonds, crosses and opposing hearts, and a carved scroll design along the edges. Shaft constructed of twin pierced panels pinned to the handle. Fluted wheel with remnants of piecrust. Deep rich patina. Length 5.75”. Includes a metal stand. 3,000/5,000
Milford, Conn.: N. Flayderman & Co., 1971), p. 178, Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved by Stuart M. Frank (Boston: David R. Godine with the New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2012), p. 195, and A Mariner’s Fancy: The Whaleman’s Art of Scrimshaw by Nina Hellman and Norman Brouwer (N.Y.: South Street Seaport with Balsam Press, et al, 1992), p. 58.
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