MARITIME INTEREST: AN AMERICAN MARINE IVORY 'WHALER'S' WALKING CANE
Mid 19th Century
The sectional shaft with baleen spacers, mother-of-pearl terminal and lanyard apertures, with inscription reading 'This Whaling Stick WAS MADE BY B. MEIN. on board the Ship Fabius, Capt.n Chase, while cruising on the Coast of Peru ON A WHALING VOYAGE it contains 14 teeth taken out by himself and captured in the boat which he belonged to', 87cm long
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£500 - £800
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£500 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
The Fabius was a whaling vessel from Nantucket, Massachusetts, and likely sailed between 12th July 1840 and 6th April 184, captained by Frederick B. Chase (1795-1873). ('Catalogue of Nantucket Whalers And Their Voyages From 1815 to 1870' by Hussey & Robinsons publishers 1876). It was possibly on this voyage, undertaken to collect valuable Sperm whale oil, that the stick was constructed, a typical project undertaken by whalers to utilise the less valuable whale bone and ivory. Captain Chase is listed as being interred in the Prospect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket.
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