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Scrimshaw busk
busk
SCRIMSHAW & ALLIED ARTS - BUSKSmarad; scrimshaw
12-1/2 x 1-7/16 in.
Whalebone busk, engraved on one side, 3 vertical sections of designs, top to bottom: standing girl holding basket in left hand, wears calf length dress and pantaloons, frame of vines, 2 interlocking hearts over waist length picture of woman wearing feather hat, gloves, holding fan in right hand, vines around her head; headless eagle, wings spread, claws holding arrows and leaves, a ribbon reading "U (sic.) PLURIBUS UNIM". Paper label glued on back, red geometric design and in black "22". Rounded bottom end, double scallop top end.
1939.1909.A