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Back, more years than I want to remember, but it was when I was between 12 & 17, I remember talking with the Lady Biologist from down to Wood's Hole who was studieing Swordfish, and she would fly in to Cuttyhunk with Norman Gingrass in his float plane, or come up from WHOI with the Tuna Guy. She would gut the Swordfish we brought in and take the parts she was interested in, for the research she was doing. One day I was speaking with her about the Swordfish eye and she described the eye structure of the Swordfish. She mentioned that the guy's over to Menemsha would sometimes make things with the eye of the swordfish. The eye fit inside of a large, about 4 to 5 inch diameter shell like structure that would allow the swordfish to move it's field if vision in many directions. Up, down, ahead and behind. With a slight turn of it's head and the movement of it's eye, the fish could look to and see beyond it's tail, with ease.
I took a few eye sockets out of some of the swordfish we caught and would dry the socket in the Sun. I had several, which I gave away or sold. Don't have any today.
The eye ball itself was golf ball size and clear. Did not shrink much when dried in the Sun but would not rot if dried for a couple weeks.
The eye "cup" would dry hard in the same time and would last for years.
Hope this has helped some of you folks that are interested in these things.
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