Description: Property of a Palm Beach Gentleman
A group of twenty-five wood, rattan and bone walking sticks, the majority English, late 19th - early 20th century
comprising:
1)A German Art Nouveau Silver cane handle of a maiden poised atop a lion, circa 1900. On a tapered brown ebony shaft with horn ferrule, marked 800 with other indistinct hallmarks,93cm., 36 1/2 in. long
2)Continental Silver Crook-Shaped cane handle cast as a hound?ís head, Circa 1900-1910, in silver, marked London, 1907, makers mark E.I. at base of its handle, on a bamboo shaft,90cm., 35 1/2 in. long
3)A Harmonica Bamboo Cane, 90cm., 35 in. long
4)A wood cane handle articulated boxwood glove-holding example carved as a gnome, with glass inset eyes, his mouth opens when his long beard is depressed, on an oak shaft, 90cm., 35 in. long
5)A wood cane handle articulated boxwood glove-holding example carved as a dogs head, with glass inset eyes, his mouth opens when his mouth is depressed, on an oak shaft,90cm., 35 in. long
6)A Continental silver crook-shaped ?Athleticí figural cane, early 20th Century, German. Cast as a football player in game attire, kicking a ball before him, on a rosewood shaft, stamped German silver marks,91cm., 36 in. long
7)Silver mounted horn handle and hammered ?silverí collar indistinctly marked and worked with an Empirical thermometer,90cm., 35 1/2 in. long
8)Silver Mounted Walking Stick 19th Century, with an exaggerated pistol-shaped niello-work silver grip,90cm., 35 in. long
9)A Fine French Gentleman's watch cane with a brass knop grip set with a time piece with Arabic numbers on a red guiloche dial, lifting to reveal the movement, on an ebonized shaft with horn ferrule, Late 19th Century,88 cm., 34 1/2 in. long
10)A Gold cane handle,93cm., 36 1/2 in. long
11)A Fine German Silver and Malacca Gentleman's Walking Stick, Circa 1770-1790 the handle elaborately chased with a child holding an orb, an anchor, a heart and a goblet, Rococo silver eyelets, the fine tapering malacca shaft ending on a 4 1/4 metal ferrule, the handle is hallmarked Wurzberg, Germany with maker's mark Joseph Neuss, lacking one mount to eyelet.
12)An American Brass-Mounted Leather Covered Walking Stick , Circa 1880
13)continental silver walking stick, the bulbous handle mounted with a cabochon tigerís eye stone and chased with scrolls, flower heads, and rocialle, with narrow silver-gilt collar, the ebonized shaft with gilt eyelet.
14)A Silver-Mounted Rosewood flute walking stick, late 19th Century, the shaft fitted as a flute in the upper half, with silver spiral fluted pommel grip and ?silveredí keypads.34 1/2" long
15)A Rare Chorus-Master's Cane containing a conducting baton, English stained satinwood, Collar engraved J.C. Tate ,93cm., 36 1/2 in. long
16)A Bamboo Recorder Cane,90cm., 35 in. long
17-24) Eight assorted canes
25) Gentleman's Grained Elmwood Drinks Cane, with two compartments, one concealing a long tubular flask, the smaller a drink cup,Late 19th Century
Quantity:25