Rare Sailor-Made Kitchen Knife Cutlery Box Tray

Rare Sailor-Made Kitchen Knife Cutlery Box Tray
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Product Code: ROYO01
Shipping Weight: 5.00 lbs
$895.00
1 in stock

Product Description

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Canted dovetail mahogany cutlery box featuring an exceptionally carved, shaped center divider with cylindrical handle and finger-cutout below and scrolled ends. Height 6.25". Length 13.5". Width 8".  Punch carved on the bottom: "MADE BY C.G.M. STINSON, BARK MANTO, AT SEA, 1851." Also, faintly knifed into the bottom right corner: "101 L: 34."

Our research has discovered an Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild dated 26 October, 1835, the Bark Manto of Boston, where of Gardner (Joseph Gardner) is Master, burthen 283 tons and 5/95ths of a ton, bound from the Port of Cronstadt (Russia) for Boston. We were not able to establish any other sailing dates of the Bark 'Manto."
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