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92. VERY FINE ARCHITECTURAL WHALE IVORY AND WHALEBONE INLAID WALKING STICK, circa 1855, the
smooth ball grip inlaid with an abalone dot, the lower section reeded, both halves are separated by an octagonal wafer, all carved of a
single piece of ivory; the bone shaft starts with a small octagonal section with tortoiseshell diamonds and mother of pearl panels above
an architectural section with four reeded columns with a unique addition of a baleen rope carved interior post and cathedral-like open
windows on all four sides as capitals inlaid with silver squares; the next section having 56 tortoiseshell, baleen & abalone inlays on
carved octagonal panels with reeding. The lower section is a tapering and reeded to a ring then a smooth tapering end.
Length 34 ½ in.
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