A Fine c.1880 Carved Bone Scrimshaw Sailors Dice Holder & Dice

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A Fine c.1880 Carved Bone Scrimshaw Sailors Dice Holder & DiceOrigin: English Period: Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1875 1900 Width: 1. 5 inches square The beautiful bone dice holder modelled as a dice with scrimshaw carved playing card decoration, sliding cover to reveal compartment containing six bone dice, the side decoration to include the Queen of spades, King of spades and Jack of spades survives from the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Attractively designed and wonderfully

and printmaker Antonio Pollaiuolo  (1432–1498) was probably the first to skin human bodies in order to investigate the muscles and understand the nude form

Early toy trains or those without steam or clockwork were simple toys made to be pushed or pulled along the floor

which was placed over the head of the linen-wrapped body

with fine detail showing wrinkled skin and crooked teeth

this well sized antique textile sings with history

Manufactured in England’

with turned handles

Height: 37 inches (at maximum)

Joan of Kent

Period: Early Victorian

the design is more atypical and out of character in a somewhat refreshing fashion

who all competed for business during the first decade of the twentieth century

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