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Carved wood (probably pine) stamp with wide flat handle above rectangular base; carved with figure of half of a whale (tail end) (see accession folder for sketch).
stamps (tools)
carving (processes)
wood (plant material)
marines (visual works)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
whales
Wood
Carved
Whale
Maritime
Stamp, Marking
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.248
Unknown
1 1/2 x 1 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.248.2
Probably Massachusetts (United States)
probably
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