Emma Hawkins: A Natural World

Emma Hawkins: A Natural World

An impressive collection of walking sticks, canes and other gentleman's accessories

Lot Closed

January 19, 03:24 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

An impressive collection of walking sticks, canes and other gentleman's accessories


comprising;


A Victorian bamboo walking cane, with a paper label inscribed ‘Brough from *** by James Pain, and used by his mother, wife of the Rev. R. Paine of Apsley[?]”; 134.5cm.

An ebonised crook, with horn handle and silver-metal collar; 125.5cm.

A Victorian stag horn mounted mahogany walking cane, with silver collar engraved ‘PMH’; 120cm.

A horn mounted black thorn walking stick; 112.5cm.

A homemade fruitwood walking ‘thumbstick’; 101cm.

A cane stick, with crook handle, modern; 87cm.

A Victorian silver mounted knopped hardwood cane, with crooked shaft, possibly E H Watts, London, 1896; 101.5cm.

A Victorian taxidermy and cane crop, the silver-metal mounted handle a preserved turkey leg, late 19th century; 77cm.

A Victorian finely worked yew wood crop, with shaped handle, late 19th century; 84cm.

A Victorian stag antler and silver mounted ebonised wood cane, Birmingham, late 19th century; 92cm.

A Victorian horn mounted malacca cane, the handle in the form of a hammer head with silver-metal collar; 86.5cm.

A bentwood palmwood cane with crook handle, with metal collar; 83cm.

A gilt-metal tipped cane swagger stick; 71cm.

A heavily gnarled ebonised cane, the handle carved in the form of a stylised bird head; 87cm.

A Victorian ivory-mounted heavily gnarled ebonised walking stick, the handle worked with a geometric pattern and with pierced carrying holes, third quarter 19th century, 100cm.

A silver-metal mounted stag-antler walking stick, with gnarled stem, the silver worked into the antler and with engraved decoration; 90cm.

An Edwardian metal mounted malacca and cane folding shooting stick; 89cm.

A Victorian stag antler and silver mounted bamboo cane, the foliate cast silver collar engraved ‘Won by J. Donny [?] for Curling 1904’, James Swann & Son, Birmingham, 1901; 89.5cm.

An Edwardian palmwood evening cane, with globular handle, circa 1900; 90.5cm.

An Edwardian narrow lignum vitae evening cane, with globular handle, circa 1900; 82cm.

A Victorian silver-mounted polished root or stem walking cane, the handle decorated to resemble a pollarded stump; 90.5cm.

A Victorian stag antler and silver-metal mounted cedar ‘Dibber’, the handle with engraved ‘MT’, with a massive shaft ending in a point, circa 1890; 91cm.

A massive Victorian silver mounted stag antler blackthorn walking stick, the tapered colour engraved ‘Presented to Dorick the Fool by E. C. Smithson, Hull, May, 1891, the handle with integral snuff compartment, mounts not marked; 94cm.

A vinyl covered steel gun-barrel cleaner by Parker and Hale, England; 94.5cm.

An ebonised wood gun-barrel cleaner, with turned knopped handle and detachable wire brush; 91.5cm.

A silver-mounted whalebone walking stick by Kendall & Sons, London, first half 20th century; 91.5cm.

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