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Lot 75
Sale 6223 - English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts
Jan 29, 2013
5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$800 -
1,200
Price Realized
$1,400
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Collection of seven English walking canes mostly 19th century
Comprising a bamboo form cane with spherical bone handle over rosewood shaft drilled to be played as a flute; an ebonised cane with silver atomizer handle; a malacca cane with compass-inlaid ivory handle; a malacca yardstick cane with octagonal shaft worked to show various measurements; a rosewood cane with silver rococo handle and belt-form collar; and two malacca canes, one with horn crook handle, the other a stout cane with silver dog-form handle engraved "Michael Straw, Boythorpe". (7).
Flute cane H: 35 1/2 in.