An Anglo-American whaler fid set with a Tudor coin and carved with

An Anglo-American whaler fid set with a Tudor coin and carved with the Stars and Stripes. This carved elmwood fid has a sharply tapering tip and rounded end set with a Queen Elizabeth I silver sixpence dated 1562. It is carved with a band of foliage and four triangles variously containing crossed harpoons, an anchor, a flagpole flying the Stars and Stripes with nine stars and six stripes and a shield enclosing three stars above four stripes. The interlocking triangles each have a single foliate spray above flowerheads inlaid with ivory centres, garlands and a band carved with a blue whale and two sperm whales American English, circa 1860.

Estimate:£1,400

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