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Ship's figurehead of carved oak. The terminal is an animal head in the round, with gaping beak-like jaws and prominent teeth and eyes. Long oval-section stem, deeply carved all over with lozenge-shaped lattice-work, with a plain flat rib at front and back; tenon projecting from the base, perforated for fastening peg.
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