letter opener

SCRIMSHAW & ALLIED ARTS - KNIVES
marad; scrimshaw
May 11, 1876
0 x 9.00 x 0

Whalebone and ivory knife or paper cutter (letter opener); handle has been darkened by silver nitrate. This knife was found aboard the wrecked ship OCEAN OF KRAGERO by Capt. Smith on May 11, 1876, and is so inscribed. The details are entered in his and in Sallie's and logs onboard the OHIO.


1941.631.14

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