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It includes walking sticks and boxes that sailors fashioned primarily from whale bone or ivory during long voyages; especially impressive is an elliptical “ditty box” incised with neo-Classical buildings from around 1845.

An old man with a gray beard sat on a ditty box at the lee rail, sewing a pair of breeches.

The ditty box, my lads, is the sailor’s most treasured possession.

Never interfere with another man’s ditty box unless you are looking for trouble.

The ditty box serves as the jackie’s desk, his table, his seat and many other things.