Title

Balloon Busk

Date19th Century

Mediumwhale skeletal bone

Dimensions1 5/8 × 12 3/8 in. (4.1 × 31.4 cm)

Donor credit lineKendall Whaling Museum Collection Transfer

Object number2001.100.1458

Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum

DescriptionPanbone (whale skeletal bone) polychrome engraved on one side only. Top end is lobed (three lobes), bottom end rounded. Vignettes, top to bottom: hot air balloon with a boat-shaped gondola; alternating figures of fern or Norfolk pine and palm trees, interspersed with two pentagrams; edged with sawtooth borders.ProvenanceMrs. Lord June 1963 $25.00

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