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the black amber statuette^✦︎ and Jeeves

• Jeeves hands over the black amber statuette chapters 10, 23
• Jeeves impounds the black amber statuette chapter 11
• Jeeves returns the black amber statuette chapter 22

They deal with each other in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 10, 11, 22, 23.

Scenes they share

1. At a sombre dinner Bertie admires Sir Watkyn's new black amber statuette, bought from Plank and worth a thousand pounds, offends him by calling it soapstone, and slips off to his room afterwards.Chapters 6–7, the Totleigh dining-room
2. Jeeves tells Bertie the statuette has been locked in Sir Watkyn's collection room on Spode's advice, but Stiffy, who has a key, fetches it out and sends it back to Bertie to take to Plank after lunch.Chapter 10, Bertie's room at Totleigh
3. Plank, a Rugger-mad explorer, takes Bertie for a Daily Express reporter, and when Bertie produces the statuette and asks for five pounds he threatens to call the police, just as Jeeves comes in through the french window.Chapters 10–11, Plank's house
4. At Bertie's car Jeeves explains that Sir Watkyn told Stiffy he really paid Plank a thousand pounds and lied to Uncle Tom to annoy him, briefs Bertie on Plank, and takes the statuette himself in case Spode searches Bertie.Chapter 11, Plank's house
5. Back in the drawing-room Bertie ponders how to approach Pop Bassett about the statuette when Spode comes in.Chapters 17–22, the Totleigh drawing-room

Every dealing, in order

• Chapter 10Jeeves hands Bertie, on Stiffy's behalf the black amber statuette
• Chapter 11Jeeves impounds the black amber statuette
• Chapter 22Jeeves undertakes to return the black amber statuette
• Chapter 23Jeeves hands to Madeline, claiming he found it among Bertie's underwear the black amber statuette