What Is This Mysterious Antique Bell Found In A Thrift Store And This Wooden Spool And Slope Thing?
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I can’t believe someone wouldn’t recognize scrimshaw.
It isn’t elephant ivory. It’s either whale’s tooth or walrus.
It's unlikely to be Narwhal as Narwhal is very much thinner than whale’s teeth and it’s longer and would have been worth more to sell than scrimshaw.
Either way, you can’t be in trouble for obtaining, owning, or selling real scrimshaw since it isn’t elephant ivory.
And, just a note… many people mistakenly believe that Mammoth Ivory is illegal because it’s “ivory”. It isn’t because it’s already extinct.
It is the tooth of a sperm whale
The final item is an antique cigar drying case rack. You can find many examples by searching for that term. Not to be confused with a humidor or cigar press, or a tobacco leaf/seed drying rack.
The last item is certainly an 1800's Slug Anesthetizing Rack, also known as slug or snail hotels. You rub a light intoxicant on a lettuce leave to leave in each space and after it attracted enough gassed up gastropods, you could safely remove them for milking. Sober slugs are rather dangerous to handle for milking. Slug and snail milk never really took off in America but you can still find stacks of updated plastic and carbon fiber versions behind any fine restaurant or brasseries in France, Belgium and more often in any back alleyway of Quebec during the warmer months.
The scrimshaw piece appears to me to be genuine. I've had a couple. The hollow base is a pretty good clue, fakes and composites are flat based. That is indeed a sperm whale tooth.
Here is a quick test for determining Ivory from polymer fakes. Take pliers and a needle, grip needle with pliers and heat it red hot. Touch the tip to a hidden part (not the artwork!), it will smoke. Does the smoke smell like burning plastic or burnt hair?
Burnt hair indicates genuine Ivory.
That item is very valuable, you shouldn't have any problem proving it is antique. I'd love to have it.
The last item is a cigar drying rack for hand made cigars.
That makes the most sense, especially with the size and shape of the marks on the boards. I would think that it might still have the scent of tobacco from the oils.
My first thought was an antique collating box used by printers or for sorting mail, but it wouldn't be deep or tall enough, and each space would need to hold a minimum of a ream of paper.
I used a similar metal box device for collating way back in the stone age when I worked at a print shop. It was an antique from early 1900s, and we only used it for small jobs that weren't worth firing up the automatic collating machine.
My boss also had an antique store, and she loved finding any printing related items to display at the print shop, and we used some of them! The old heavy iron book presses got plenty of use even though they were over 100 years old. I still own one of those things. If I need something smushed very flat, that does the job! I've used it to flatten warped, water damaged books and for pressing flowers.
Love item two
It looks like I'm first up today so here it goes... Looking at the top of the board at 7:30 it looks like there are 12 marks on either side of the centerline. To me that speaks of something like a proofing rack for bread sticks or something similar. So making 14 dozen at a time is something a bakery would do. It is quite certain that this was used repeatedly for making large batches of the same thing over and over again.
I think cigar box too.
👁👁 Always a pleasure
Final item is an adult magazine rack.
Maybe a fruit drying Box? I thought bees but no where for the bees to make honeycomb.
Old fruit drying boxes have screens instead of solid wood for the circulation of air with high moisture fruit.