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IMPORTANT TRAVEL BOX ATTRIBUTED TO NEW BEDFORD CAPTAIN BENJAMIN CLARK In Scrimshaw and Provenance: A Third Dictionary of Scrimshaw Artists (Mystic, Ct.: Stuart M. Frank and Mystic Seaport Museum, 2013), p. 54-55, Frank writes Benjamin Clark (1793-1881) was originally from Bridgewater, Massachusetts and married Jane Ann Smith of Edgartown. In addition to their daughter, the couple also had a son, Benjamin Smith Clark, who went on to become a whaling master as well. This box could possibly have been made for the son, or for another Smith relative.
19th Century
Mahogany box with whalebone inlay. Hinged lid with "B. Smith.", five-pointed stars at the four corners, two elongated diamonds, and a vacant medallion at the center. Front with four stars, four elongated diamonds and a diamond-shaped key escutcheon. Side panels with four stars, three elongated diamonds and loose ring handles. Interior base lined in blue velvet and fitted with a removable compartmented tray.
Height 5". Width 15". Depth 10.25".
Notes:
This piece is nearly identical and undoubtedly by the same hand as one in the New Bedford Whaling Museum Collection, ex-collection Kendall Whaling Museum, accession number 2001.100.2122, illustrated in Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved by Stuart M. Frank (Boston: David R. Godine, 2012), p. 237, fig. 11.42. Frank notes the illustrated example was made aboard the New Bedford whaleship Claris circa 1836-1838 for Jane Ann Clark (1829-1844), Captain Benjamin Clark's daughter, the work attributed to Clark himself.
Condition
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Some loss of edge moldings and light usage wear. Mostly well-preserved.
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