1920s HORN CRUTCH HANDLE/AFRICAN HARDWOOD

Vintage Arts: Instruments and Implements: Walking Sticks Pre 1930: item #758018
AfricanTroph

This handsome and hefty 1920s walking stick has a large carved crutch handle, measuring 5 x 5 inches---easy to hitch over the back of a chair or into your waistband so as to be hands free. The handle is probably of buffalo horn. The shaft is an exotic African hardwood and just below the handle has circular ivory inserts and some turning. A three-inch long bimetal tip gives it a spiffy look. Overall length of this unusual cane is 35 inches.

20thC FULLY CARVED WOODEN LORD'S PRAYER CANE

Vintage Arts: Instruments and Implements: Walking Sticks Pre 1980: item #757976
Lord'sPrayer

This fascinating fully carved in the round wooden walking stick has the words of the Lord's Prayer carved in the wood of the shaft. Beneath the handle are the initials of the carver, MLS. A leather cord is looped around the handle to encircle one's wrist. The prayer begins with "Our Father" and ends with "Amen". The entire cane has been varnished and measures 34 inches overall. Twentieth century.

ART DECO DRESS CANE c.1925/14K GOLD HANDLE/EBONY

Vintage Arts: Instruments and Implements: Walking Sticks Pre 1930: item #755968
DecoDressCan

This unusual Art Deco (circa 1925) dress cane sports a gold handles that tests for at least 14K and another material that has the look of shagreen but may not be. The handle measures 1 x 7/8 inch and tops an oval ebony shaft and one-inch horn ferrule. Beneath the handle are the initials MHR in gold. Overall length is 36 inches. You can just imagine someone carrying this handsome walking stick to the opera.

Bead Decorated Swagger Stick

Vintage Arts: Instruments and Implements: Walking Sticks Pre 1980: item #721468
7391

A swagger stick 26" long with brightly colored bead decoration all over in a swirling pattern reaching from top to bottom. The meshed bead work fits tightly over the stick's surface, which might be wood. Slightly bulbous at the top, more pointed at the bottom. Swagger sticks were ordinarily associated with uniformed military officers or officials and one of the original purposes of the swagger stick was to help keep the officers from putting their hands in their pockets. This does not appear to b... Click for details

Lacquer Box With Chopsticks

Vintage Arts: Instruments and Implements: Walking Sticks Pre 1960: item #712791
#96134

Fine Quality Black Lacquer Box With Chopsticks. Circa 1950. Box Size: 10.125" L x 1.75" W x 1" D; Chopsticks: 8.75" L

1920s PRESENTATION CANE/JUDGE BELL CINCINNATI

Vintage Arts: Instruments and Implements: Walking Sticks Pre 1930: item #712366
JudgeBell

This 1920s presentation cane was given to Cincinnati Judge Samuel W. Bell as a Christmas gift in 1928. Judge Bell was a blind judge who founded the Home for the Sightless in Cincinnati. He once sentenced electrician Ray Burke to 5 days in jail for "disturbing the peace" when Bell was on the job, hammering outside the judge's courtroom. A horn handle, measuring 3-1/2 x 4-1/2 inches, tops a 1-1/2-inch collar with shield with the engraving "Judge Samuel W. Bell Christmas 1928". Malacca shaft and b... Click for details

VINTAGE SOUTH AMERICAN RIDING WHIP/HORSE HEAD

Vintage Arts: Instruments and Implements: Walking Sticks Pre 1970: item #682095
RidingWhip

This unusual vintage South American riding whip came fresh from a Palm Beach estate, whose owners spent a lot of time in Argentina. A metal knob handle has a linked metal wrist strap and it tops a collar adorned with a horse head and horse shoe medallion. Handle and collar measure 3-1/4 x 1-3/8 inches. A crucifix in relief is applied to the hardwood shaft. Attached by a metal ring to the metal tip is a 10-inch braided rawhide thong or lash. The thong appears to be a replacement and actually look... Click for details

Sailors Cane

Vintage Arts: Instruments and Implements: Walking Sticks Pre 1900: item #655174

Antique American Whalers Cane with horn handle and banding, and shaft made from shark vertebrae. Sailors would make these decorative canes while on a voyage and sell them or give them to family and friends when they got home. Circa 1830-60

1920s AMERICAN HORN HORSE HOOF DART WEAPON CANE

Vintage Arts: Instruments and Implements: Walking Sticks Pre 1930: item #624727
HornHoofBlow

This 1920s American dart weapon cane has a terrific look---and a horse's hoof carved of horn for a handle. It tops a bamboo shaft and a 1-1/2-inch metal tip, which may be removed to reach the dart which is stored in the shaft. The hoof-shaped handle measures 4-1/4 x 2-1/2 inches. This stick has particularly clever accents---the brass collar and the silver cap on the frog or bottom of the horse's hoof, complete with studded horse shoe nails. The bamboo shaft is 7/8 inch thick. Overall length is 3... Click for details

PRE-1920s LG GERMAN CARVED STAGHORN HUNTING ANIMAL CANE

Vintage Arts: Instruments and Implements: Walking Sticks Pre 1930: item #623596
GermanStag

This awesome 1920s German walking stick sports a large stag horn handle that is wonderfully carved in relief with the figures of a boar, a bear and a dog. The scene is a hunter's peaceable kingdom, with all the animals lying down with one another. The handle alone is 11 inches in length x 4 inches. This is a massive stick. The maple shaft tapers from 1 inch to 3/4 inch above a horn tip (1-1/2 inches). Overall length of this terrific piece is 37 inches.