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c.1910 WALRUS IVORY JACKALOPE/BAMBOO WALKING STICK browse these categories for related items... Directory: Antiques:Instruments and Implements:Walking Sticks:Pre 1910: item # 575406 Please refer to our stock # Jackalope when inquiring.
Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver 5133 Harding Road B-10, PMB #392 Nashville TN 37205 (615) 477-6221 Guest Book $1100 |
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| This jaunty circa 1910 walking stick has the legendary jackalope, carved of walrus ivory, as its handle. The fabled jackalope, a cottontail or domestic rabbit or jackrabbit mounted with the horns of a young antelope, deer or goat, is commonly believed to have originated in the folklore of the American West. In 1985 the Governor of Wyoming proclaimed Douglas, Wyoming to be the "Home of the Jackalopes." However, references to horned or stag hare appear in 18th-century German school books and even earlier in a fifteenth-century engraving by the German Renaissance engraver Albrecht Durer. And there are those who swear they have seen the real thing and many specimens have been found in science museum archives. Our jackalope has glass eyes and measures 3 x 1 inches. He wears a 1/2-inch gilded collar over a bamboo shaft and 1-1/2-inch metal tip. Overall length of this realistically carved walking stick is 36 inches. | ||||||||
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