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https://www.decorativecollective.com/dealers/walpolesA seam-rubber likely made and used by a whaler of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.
Of excellent old colour, made using one piece of whalebone with a wedge-shaped working edge polished smooth from work, the mid section swelling to make a comfortable handle and a cube terminal carved as an octahedron.
English or American circa 1800.
length:4 5/8 in