Double Snake Crimper
Title

Double Snake Crimper

Date19th Century
Mediumwhale ivory, baleen, tortoise shell, ferrous metal, non-ferrous metal
Dimensions3 3/8 × 1 7/8 × 8 3/8 in. (8.6 × 4.8 × 21.3 cm)
Object number1923.7.27
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionThree-piece whale ivory openwork construction. Crescent-T finial screws on with a threaded wood-screw-type post; tortoise-shell separator; double loop handle with four-prong starbust motif; four bands of tortoise shell, two of whale ivory, one of green baleen; foreshaft divides into two full-round carved heads of snakes (serpents), one supporting a two-tine fork, the other making the saddle, with the eyes formed by a nonferrous axle; openwork wheel with hexakele hub and double-fluted (crenellated) rim. Wheel badly warped; stress cracks at some joints.
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