Home > Auctions > Catalog > Whalebone, Baleen and Ivory Sailor's Cane
 
FULL
SCREEN      

Lot 583    

Whalebone, Baleen and Ivory Sailor's Cane
4/12/2014 - Americana: Live Salesroom Auction
American, 19th century. A sailor's cane with alternating angled rings of baleen and whalebone having a knob topped by an ivory disc featuring a relief carved and polychrome painted heart in hand; lg. 34 in. 

Provenance:  
From the Estate of Kenneth Erwin, Portland, Michigan

Condition:  
Baleen sections separating in multiple places. Third whalebone section from bottom missing half.
Sold: $984.00
Price includes
Buyer's Premium
      Ask a Question
 

All Images

auction items
   
 
Ivory Phrenologist's Cane Head
View This Item
Lot # 591 - Ivory Phrenologist's Cane Head
American, 19th century. An ivory cane head serving as a phrenologist's chart in the form of a human head with the skull divided into numbered sections and a list of corresponding labels around the base, mounted on a wooden pillar; ht. 6.75 in. > Item Details
Folk Art
Fine and Large Ash Burl Bowl
View This Item
Lot # 405 - Fine and Large Ash Burl Bowl
American, 19th century.  A large turned ash bowl; diameter 17 in. > Item Details
General Americana
<i>Miller's Cabin</i> Charcoal by J.K. Walters
View This Item
Lot # 593 - Miller's Cabin Charcoal by J.K. Walters
19th century.  Charcoal on paper, depicting a Hudson River School scene with figures in foreground, inscriptions l.c.; 6 x 8 in. (sight).  Housed in rosewood frame with gilt liner. > Item Details
Art- American
<i>Marx Siren Fire Chief</i> Toy Car, Plus
View This Item
Lot # 685 - Marx Siren Fire Chief Toy Car, Plus
American, 20th century. A large pressed steel Marx wind-up Siren Fire Chief toy car with rubber tires, PLUS a standing cast iron figure of a fire fighter and a cast iron ladder fire truck; toy car lg. 15.5 in. > Item Details
Toys
Child's Ladderback High Chair in Old Red Paint
View This Item
Lot # 748 - Child's Ladderback High Chair in Old Red Paint
American, 19th century. A  child's ladderback high chair with mortise construction, retaining old red finish, having a two splat back, new taped seat, and a splayed base with box stretchers; oah. 37 in.  > Item Details
Furniture
<i>Hands All Around</i> Quilt
View This Item
Lot # 357 - Hands All Around Quilt
American, 18th or 19th century. A pieced quilt featuring 16 hands all around patterns in blue and white star printed fabric on a finely quilted white ground with white binding; 74.5 x 65 in. > Item Details
Textiles
Woven Splint Baskets
View This Item
Lot # 334 - Woven Splint Baskets
American. Two woven round splint baskets with wrapped rims, the smaller basket having a bentwood swing handle; largest ht. 12 in.  > Item Details
Folk Art
Folk Art Potted Flower
View This Item
Lot # 129 - Folk Art Potted Flower
American, early 20th century. A folk art carved potted flower in polychrome paint, "planted" in a painted tin can with concrete; ht. 13.75 in. > Item Details
Folk Art
Quilt Rack in Old Red Paint
View This Item
Lot # 111 - Quilt Rack in Old Red Paint
American, 19th century. A quilt rack in  old red paint with three sets of paired racks; ht. 51, wd. 28, dp. 8 in. > Item Details
Furniture
Great Lakes Maple Scoops
View This Item
Lot # 477 - Great Lakes Maple Scoops
Two fine Great Lakes maple scoops, one with a hooked tapered handle, the other of burl maple with a flat handle; largest lg. 9.5 in.  > Item Details
American Indian Art
Chippendale Pine 7-Drawer Chest
View This Item
Lot # 818 - Chippendale Pine 7-Drawer Chest
American (New England), 18th century. A high chest converted to a tall chest in pine with later base, top having a molded cornice and open dovetails, three aligned drawers over four graduated drawers; ht. 43, wd. 38, dp. 19.5 in. > Item Details
Furniture
Treenware Vinegar Painted Canisters
View This Item
Lot # 268 - Treenware Vinegar Painted Canisters
American, early 19th century. An assembled group of three treenware canisters with lids, two with vinegar graining; largest ht. 7 in. > Item Details
Treen & Wooden Ware
Early Betty Lamp
View This Item
Lot # 465 - Early Betty Lamp
American, 19th century. A forged wrought-iron betty lamp with a twisted rat tail pick; ht. without pick 6 in., lg. with pick 9.5 in. > Item Details
Lighting
Chippendale Tall Chest of Drawers
View This Item
Lot # 333 - Chippendale Tall Chest of Drawers
American, 18th century. A Chippendale tall chest of drawers in cherry and poplar, having a molded cornice over two aligned drawers over five graduated dovetailed drawers with molded edges, on ogee bracket feet; ht. 54.5, wd. 44, dp. 23 in. > Item Details
Furniture
Read and Watson Tall Case Clock
View This Item
Lot # 846 - Read and Watson Tall Case Clock
Read and Watson (Cincinnati), ca 1810-1816. A cherry tall case clock, case design with no face door, the bonnet having four columns with painted face of gilt and floral design, featuring two secondary tracks within the larger dial, one of 31 segments denoting the day and one of 60 segments measuring... > Item Details
Timepieces
Gaudy Tableware, Plus
View This Item
Lot # 399 - Gaudy Tableware, Plus
English, 19th century. An assembled group of gaudy tableware including four plates, one saucer, one teacup, one serving bowl, and one compote marked Alligator Schooner, PLUS an English stick spatter mush saucer in the bullseye pattern, PLUS a sponge decorated saucer with a hand-painted flower cluste... > Item Details
Pottery & Porcelain
Baltimore Stoneware Crock
View This Item
Lot # 193 - Baltimore Stoneware Crock
American (Maryland), 19th century. A 1.5 gallon salt-glazed stoneware crock with brushed cobalt floral decoration on two sides, impressed 1 1/2; ht. 11 in. > Item Details
Pottery & Porcelain
Yelloware End Of Day Cookie Jar
View This Item
Lot # 246 - Yelloware End Of Day Cookie Jar
American. An end of day figural cookie jar of a figural clown holding his stout belly; ht. 11 in. > Item Details
Pottery & Porcelain
<i>Eyes of God</i> Quilt
View This Item
Lot # 347 - Eyes of God Quilt
American, 19th century. A pieced quilt featuring ocean waves pattern in four rows of brown and white triangles, framed by two sawtooth borders in brown and having two sections of wave pattern in red fabric, creating modified "eyes of God;" 75.75 x 66 in.  > Item Details
Textiles
ITEMS 1-20 of 20
SKIP TO PAGE:

Login

 
Register
 
Cancel

Contact Us

 
 
Cancel
Loading...

Enter Your Zip Code

 

 

 

 

 
 
Cancel
© 2020 COWAN'S AUCTIONS, INC.
Phone: 513-871-1670