In _A Certain Dr. Thorndyke_, 1927, by Richard Austin Freeman: . . . a consignment of ivory, consisting of “thirty-nine large tusks in three large crates, at present in the hold of the brigantine _Speedwell_, and fifty-one scribellos in a large canvas bag, wired up and sealed, also in the hold”; https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20190103 -- Eric