$2,142
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts
Auction: April 27, 2021 11:00:00 AM EDT
Including a whale bone serving mallet, incised with the intitials, "W.H.T."; a boatswain's whistle with a macramed lanyard; a silver wax fob seal with ship, bearing maker's mark "W.S," attributed to William Cadogan Simes (1773-1824) of Portsmouth, New Hampshire; a red leather pocket book/diary fitted with a pencil and with 2 stipple engravings on silk with portraits of "O. H. Perry Esq. of the United States Navy," and "Capt'n J. D. Elliott U.S. Navy"; and a Chinese Export porcelain cup and saucer decorated with a ship at sea.
Provenance
A Philadelphia gentleman.
The serving mallet and whistle bear tags inscribed, "Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Talbot."