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Valentine's Gift ListAn early scrimshaw-decorated sweethearts stay busk, carved from whalebone and given as a love token by a mariner.
Until 1830, corsets were known as 'stays' and busks were inserted into the front of a stay to flatten the wearer's stomach and keep her torso straight and upright.
Busk worked over one side with panels that include flowers, a love heart and other decorative motifs, all set within a sharks' tooth border.
A rare and fine example.
English
Date circa 1850
Dimensions
Width 4.5cm / 1.8in, overall length 32.5cm / 12.7in.Stock number
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