Small Scrimshaw Ivory and Bone Yarn Swift, 19th century, with bird finial on slender shaft with expanding bone slats with carved open mouth, dog-head clamp, with a closed fist on the threaded screw, and billing birds on one end of the head, (loose slat segments, repair on lower shaft), ht. 12 3/4 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-03-03
Scrimshaw Ivory and Bone Yarn Swift, mid-19th century, with turned ivory yarn cup over expanding bone slats on a columnar bone shaft, with ivory ring Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-03-03
Assorted Group of Small Carved Ivory and Bone Items, probably sailor or Inuit made, late 19th/early 20th century, including two walrus figures, a set of Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2007-11-04
Group of Assorted Mostly Small Carved Ivory and Bone Articles, and Utensils, three lorgnette handles, a four-piece miniature fireplace tool set, miniature knife and fork, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-15
Eleven Small Scrimshaw Trinkets and Whaling Related Items, 19th century, an engraved whalebone slide-lid book-form box with tortoiseshell inlay, one side with a heart-in-hand motif, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-10-27
Twenty-three Assorted Carved Ivory and Bone Sewing Items, 19th century, many items made in China, a large ivory clamp a with velvet pincushion and band Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-11-05
Eight ivory and bone snuff boxes, early 19th c. , 3 with scrimshaw decoration, another with silver applique, inscribed "Richard Smith, Pendelbury, April 16, 1867". Read more…
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2005-09-10
Three Small Ivory and Bone Articles, comprising two Asian-style traveling shrines, one ivory containing a figure, the other containing a cross, ht. 3 1/2 and Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2003-10-04
Three European Ivory and Bone Carvings, a bone carving of the Doves of Pliny mounted to small velvet-lined frame, a bone shoe horn, and a Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2007-11-15
Group of Assorted Asian Ivory and Bone Carvings, including a pair of deities on wooden stands (damage, losses), several small elephant processions, a pair of Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-04-12
Carved and Inlaid Ivory and Bone Yarn Swift, America, mid-19th century, the ivory swift topped with a covered yarn cup, on a turned shaft inlaid Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2008-02-17
