Scrimshaw Sewing Basket of walnut with whale bone inlay. Dove in a floral setting, with inserts to all eight sides. Probably made by a ship's carpenter; from a Mystic, Connecticut whaling family.

Pocket Watch stand with whalebone feet with 21 bone inserts, whalebone pedestal, glass dome missing.

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Nice vertical shellwork arrangement to replicate floral pieces with marine shells, set on a base within a period glass dome. There is a single masted sloop in the center of the base, with a solitary crossed spar on the mast.

Sliding compartment at bottom rear, with two pegs. Very nice early gaming device. From a Dsrtmouth, Mass. family collection in 1973.