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Elaborately carved baleen busk.
busks
baleen
Garment, Foundation
Busk
Busk
"When this you see remember me / And keep me in your mind / Let all the world say what they will / Speak of me as you find" (scratched)
"May you be blest with all that heaven can send / Long life peace comfort and a loving friend / Through all your life most happy may you be / And though far distant I will think of thee." (scratched)
Unknown
Gift of William Sumner Appleton
1927.245
Provincetown (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
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