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1920s DOG CANE/CARVED WOOD/GLASS EYES

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Instruments and Implements: Walking Sticks: Pre 1930   item# 990450 (stock# WoodenDog)

1920s DOG CANE/CARVED WOOD/GLASS EYES
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Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver
(615) 477-6221


$975 

This circa 1920s cane has a carved wooden dog's head for a handle. The dog is quite expressive with glass eyes. The handle measures 3-1/2 x 2 inches and tops a 1-1/2 inch repousse silver collar with a shield which could be easily engraved. The stained hardwod shaft terminates in a bimetal tip, and the overall length is 35-1/2 inches. This would be a nice piece for collectors of dog memorabilia.


CHILD'S SWORD CANE/BONE HANDLE/WOVEN WOOD

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Instruments and Implements: Walking Sticks: Pre 1960   item# 980173 (stock# Child'sSword)

CHILD'S SWORD CANE/BONE HANDLE/WOVEN WOOD
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Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver
(615) 477-6221


$975 

This unique child's sword cane sports a bone handle above a twisted or woven wooden shaft and bone tip. The handle measures 4-1/4 inches x 1 inch in diameter. The blade is 8-3/4 inches. The overall length is 25 inches. Amidst the floral design is the name Devrek: Hatirasi and the date 1952. A most unusual stick!


VINTAGE GOLD-FILLED PRESENTATION DRESS CANE/EBONY

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Instruments and Implements: Walking Sticks: Pre 1930   item# 853536 (stock# RohrerGoldF)

VINTAGE GOLD-FILLED PRESENTATION DRESS CANE/EBONY
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Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver
(615) 477-6221


$550 

This handsome vintage presentation walking stick sports a gold-filled knob handle above an ebonized ebony shaft that terminates in a bi-metal tip. The handle, which is 2 inches in length by 1-1/2 inches in diameter, is engraved in beautiful old script "Louis Rohrer Presented by the Students and Graduates of Rohrer's Commercial College." The tip is 1-2/4 inches and overall length of the stick is 34-1/2 inches. There is a Rohrer College of Business at Rowan University in Glassboro, N ...click for details


1920s HORN CRUTCH HANDLE/AFRICAN HARDWOOD

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Instruments and Implements: Walking Sticks: Pre 1930   item# 758018 (stock# AfricanTroph)

1920s HORN CRUTCH HANDLE/AFRICAN HARDWOOD
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Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver
(615) 477-6221


$1250 

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.


1920s PRESENTATION CANE/JUDGE BELL CINCINNATI

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Instruments and Implements: Walking Sticks: Pre 1930   item# 712366 (stock# JudgeBell)

1920s  PRESENTATION CANE/JUDGE BELL CINCINNATI
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Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver
(615) 477-6221


$1250 

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


VINTAGE SOUTH AMERICAN RIDING WHIP/HORSE HEAD

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Instruments and Implements: Walking Sticks: Pre 1970   item# 682095 (stock# RidingWhip)

VINTAGE SOUTH AMERICAN RIDING WHIP/HORSE HEAD
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Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver
(615) 477-6221


$250 

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


1920s-30s IVORY LION EATING A SNAKE CANE/IN A BOOK

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Instruments and Implements: Walking Sticks: Pre 1940   item# 577400 (stock# LionEating)

1920s-30s IVORY LION EATING A SNAKE CANE/IN A BOOK
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Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver
(615) 477-6221


$1100 

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


1920s IVORY RENAISSANCE HEAD CANE/FRENCH

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Instruments and Implements: Walking Sticks: Pre 1930   item# 309822 (stock# IvoryHead)

1920s IVORY RENAISSANCE HEAD CANE/FRENCH
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Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver
(615) 477-6221


$400 

This 1920s cane boasts a lovely ivory handle carved in the form of a child's Renaissance head. It is likely French in origin. The features are crisply delineated with a beautiful patina. There is an old repair to the nose. The head measures 2-1/4 x 2 inches and sits on a silver collar and hardwood shaft terminating with an ivory tip. Overall length is 36-1/2 inches.


1920s STAG HORN RIDING CROP/ENGRAVED METAL COLLAR

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Instruments and Implements: Walking Sticks: Pre 1930   item# 297079 (stock# StaghornCr)

1920s STAG HORN RIDING CROP/ENGRAVED METAL COLLAR
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Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver
(615) 477-6221


$250 

This functional stag horn handled riding crop from the 1920s was carried by foxhunters when they rode to the hounds. The handle including metal collar is 3 x 4-1/4 inches. The entire crop is 27 inches in length. Some crops have shafts that are made of leather, but this one is made of stepped hardwood. "F.G. Cornwallis" is engraved on the collar. You don't have to be a member of the horse and hound set to own this.


c. 1920s-30s PIPE GADGET CANE

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Instruments and Implements: Walking Sticks: Pre 1930   item# 187387 (stock# Pipe)

c. 1920s-30s PIPE GADGET CANE
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Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver
(615) 477-6221


$650 

Another amusing gadget cane from the 1920s-1930s, this one in the form of a pipe. The cane's handle serves as the pipe's bowl and the stem, stored in the shaft, attaches to it. The handle itself is 2-1/4 inches. The overall length of the cane is 35 inches. The wood appears to be sycamore. Similar models appear on pages 66 and 67 of Catherine Dike's "Canes Curiosa From Gun to Gadget."

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