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Lot 3107

Six Stephen Paulsen Turned and Carved Scent Bottles

Estimate: $400 - $700
Current Bid
$200

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Six Stephen Paulsen Turned and Carved Scent Bottles, made of various common and rare woods, some with inlays of additional materials. Each bottle containing a smaller glass bottle with screw top to interior of drilled centers.  Incised with Paulsen and, variously, Stephen Paulsen, in script, and dated 1980, 1983, 1985, 1988, etc. The two large, flat bottles also inscribed in script, "Chessman #3," and "8 x 16 Psychotic Chessboard."

Stephen Paulsen (1947 - 2018). 

{Approximate dimensions: 11 1/2" L., the larger cylindrical scent bottle. The Chessman #3 bottle measurements:  8 1/4" H. x 3 1/4" W. x 1 1/2" D.}. 

Very good condition, minor surface wear and scratches. The larger, cylindrical bottle with a drilled hole to one side, which may have held a piece of wood, now absent.

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