27 . WHALEMAN CARVED WHALE IVORY AND WHALEBONE FIGURAL WALK- ING STICK , circa 1870 , carved ivory sailor grip , wearing hat , long hair , sideburns , in shore dress , leaning on a tree stump holding his pipe , on a round tapering whalebone and ivory shaft with four baleen spacers . Length 36 in .
Literature : Flayderman , E . Norman , Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders – Whales and Whalemen , New Milford , Connecticut , Published 1972 , pp . 133 .
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