Artist/Maker
Bates, Henry
Place MadeNew London, Connecticut, United States
Title
Bates bomb lance
DateCirca 1857
Mediumiron, copper
Dimensions7/8 × 13 1/2 in. (2.2 × 34.3 cm)
Object number00.206.37
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionHollow iron tube with a screw-on triangular shaped head with three sides. A copper wire is coiled around the butt, which Lytle [Thomas G. Lytle, Harpoons and Other Whalecraft] identifies as "acts as fin."On View
Not on view
Pierce, Ebenezer - attributed
Durfee, James (Jr.)
Mason & Cunningham
Mason, Henry W.
