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THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL

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A carved and painted Tagua nut also known as vegetable ivory, the cargo of the Peruvian when it ran aground on the 8th of February 1899 during a vicious storm.


Probably created by H.H.Evans who also produced drawings of the shipwreck, a similar examples is housed at the Seaford Museum


5/4.5/4cm


The 600-ton barque Peruvian was an iron ship equipped with steel yardarms. It had been built by D & W Henderson shipbuilders in Glasgow in 1875, so had already seen considerable service. In 1898 it was owned by a Danish company and was en-route to Hamburg from Port Esmeralda in Cuba from where it had departed nearly five months earlier laden with timber and vegetable ivory. Vegetable ivory is the nut of the South American palm and its main use at the time was in the button industry.

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    • Price: £495.00
    • €598 Euro
    • $626 US Dollar
  • Location: England