This circa 1920s walking stick has a 5-3/4-inch long sterling silver handle with a 3-1/2-inch ring attached that makes it nearly impossible to drop, merely by slipping the ring was slipped over the wrist. The silver handle, carved with dragons and other fanciful designs, tops a snakewood shaft and bi-metal tip. Overall length is 35-1/2 inches.
This great flash light cane dating from the 1920s was effectively used for hailing taxi cabs. A fun gadget cane, the 1-1/2-inch celluloid knob handle tops a butternut shaft and the macrame insert twists to turn on the fligh light. The cane has a 1-1/2-inch horn tip and measures 36-1/4 inches overall.
This interesting circa 1920s walking stick has a carved bird's head for a handle. In its beak, the bird is holding what looks like some sort of melon. Handle measures are 4 inches. The bird has glass eyes and the head sits on top of a rosewood shaft 1/4 inch in diameter and a 1-1/4-inch ivory tip. Overall length of this stick is 35-1/2 inches.
This amusing carved wood bull dog's head forms a child's cane, circa 1900. The dog's head, which has glasss eyes, measures 1-5/8 inches. A 1/2-inch silver tone collar tops the ebony shaft which is 5/8 inches in diameter and a 1-inch bimetal tip. Overall length is 25 inches.
This knob handled walking stick sports a golf ball shaped from rock (measures 1-1/2 x 1-1/2 inches), a 1-1/2-inch metal collar above an ebony shaft and 1-2/8 inch bimetal tip. Overall loength is 36 inches. What a great gift for the golfer you know!
This unusual walking stick sports a knob handle made from rock, which looks quite like polished granite. The handle measures 2 inches by 1-1/8 inch and sits on a one-inch metal collar, a rosewood shaft and a 1-1/2-inch metal tip. Overall length is 35-3/4 inches.
This unusual triangular walking stick dates from the 1920s and sports an ivory top, thin gold tone band and ebony shaft with a 1-1/8-inch black horn tip. The ivory portion is 1 inch in length by 7/8 inches in diameter. Overall length of this interesting stick is 35-3/8 inches.
This working grocery store scale was made by the Standard Computing Company of Detroit, Michigan, which patented it in 1909. Finished with gold glossy paint, this vintage scale is an eye catcher. Dimensions are 31 inches in height x 17 inches in width x 18 inches in depth. The 16 x 13 inch glass round where you placed your items to be weighed is included.
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.
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
