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Lot 131
Sale 2158 - Age of Exploration: Travel & Discovery through the Centuries
Oct 14, 2020
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$1,200 -
1,800
Price Realized
$1,625
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Lot Description
A group of three professionals' canes Various dates 19th/20th century
Comprising a silver and ebonized wood jeweler's walking stick, the handle releasing to reveal a series of twenty-four numbered brass sizing rings, the enlarged brass ferrule a mandrel; a tin and ebony tinsmith's cane, the handle opening to reveal a nesting series of nine tin funnels, each ending in a different shape; and a Victorian brass-mounted briarwood cane, converting to an iron saw, no longer functional, the iron marked "HOLTZAPFFEL & CO. LONDON." (3).
L: 38 in. (longest)