toggle harpoon marked "J.MACY"

toggle harpoon

WHALING GEAR - HARPOONS
USA, MA, New Bedford
1857-1860
iron
overall: 32 3/4 in. L

Toggle harpoon, stamped "J.MACY", identifying the maker as Josiah Macy (b. Nantucket 1805, worked in New Bedford after 1842) and the date made to be between 1857 and 1860, dates of the company name used; hand forged iron shaft ending in a split socket with a single nail hole; very slight bend to extreme point of toggle


2018.35.1

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