coconut shell dipper

SCRIMSHAW & ALLIED ARTS - DIPPERS
marad; scrimshaw
Smith, Frederick H. (Capt.)
Circa 1876
ivory; coconut shell; wood?; glass
14 x 3 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.

Coconut-shell dipper. Handle consists of six sections of whale ivory with five wooden separators screwed together on threaded whale ivory dowles. Unusual cage-work finial which contains an obsidian or black glass lozenge. Ivory ring at end of handle. Made by Capt. Frederick Howland Smith of whaling bark OHIO, c. 1876.

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