Walking stick - whale ivory and shark vertebrae
Whale ivory and shark vertebrae walking stick
19th century, ivory fish-form knob above tapering vertebrae shaft, brass tip, length 35 1/8 inches
Part of the William Howard, Sr. collection
Whale ivory and shark vertebrae walking stick
19th century, ivory fish-form knob above tapering vertebrae shaft, brass tip, length 35 1/8 inches
Part of the William Howard, Sr. collection
19th century, ivory fist-form knob above baleen spacers continuing to a tapering whalebone shaft, (minor cracks and losses), length 34 1/3 inches
Part of the William Howard, Sr. collection
Engraved Whale's Tooth
19th century, decorated with an elegant lady with fan, length 6 inches
Part of the William Howard, Sr. collection
Needlework Embroidery
Early 19th century, purportedly done by Miss Sara Mackentyre of Salem, Massachusetts; depicting figures in a landscape, silk on linen ground, (fading, minor fiber wear), 7 x 8 1/2 inches
Part of the William Howard, Sr. collection
Engraved Porpoise Jaw
Late 19th century, decorated with a young girl, a memorial cross, scrolling vines, an elegant lady and a figure of liberty, inscribed on interior "W.H. Harvard," length 13 1/4 inches
Part of the William Howard, Sr. collection
French Flintlock Pistol
Late 18th-early 19th century, with label "French Cavalry Pistol taken from one of the battlefields in the Crimea," engraved "M R de S....,"
Minor corrosion, cracks to handle, length 14 inches
Part of the William Howard, Sr. Collection
Bow and Three Arrows of Asiatic/Polynesian origin
Part of William Howard, Sr. Collection
Portrait of Elmyra Iversen,1904 - 2002, Historical Society benefactress
Wife of Arthur Iversen
A portrait of Appleton Gale (1829-1908), tax collector, lived on Gale Road
Photo of Ira Draper, 1805-1882
Selectman 1837-1842; 1844-1846
Town Clerk 1849-1857; 1857-1860
Representative to State Legislature
Lived at Mayo Four Corners, foot of North Orange Road