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.
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.
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.
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&qu ...click for details
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
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 len ...click for details
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.
This European Art Deco sword cane has an attractive ivory knob handle decorated with ebony and silver discs and 7/8-inch silver collar. A silver disc tops the knob. The handle measures 2-3/4 inches in length x 1-5/8 inches in diameter. The blade that is concealed within the shaft measures 21 inches. The ebonized hardwood shaft is 3/4 inches in diameter and terminates in a horn tip. Overall length is 36 inches.
The walrus ivory handle of this terrific 1920s-1930s walking stick has been crisply carved to depict a lion holding a snake in its mouth. The pistol grip handle is 4 x 1-7/8 inches. It tops a 1/2-inch hallmarked solid gold collar and beautiful figured snakewood shaft ending in an inch-long metal tip. Overall length of this stick is 34-1/2 inches. This ivory cane was chosen to appear on page 141 in Jeffrey B. Snyder's newest book for Schiffer entitled Canes & Walking Sticks/A Stroll Thro ...click for details
This realistically carved snake's head of petrified mastodon ivory forms the handle of this great looking contemporary walking stick. The ivory handle measures 1-5/8 x 1-1/2 inches and tops a half-inch silver collar, palmwood shaft and half-inch black horn tip. The snake's head has peridots for eyes. Overall length s 34 inches. This stunning cane is pictured on page 41 of Jeffrey B. Snyder's "Canes & Walking Sticks/A Stroll Through Time & Place."
