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Lot 133
Sale 2158 - Age of Exploration: Travel & Discovery through the Centuries
Oct 14, 2020
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$300 -
500
Price Realized
$563
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Two Anglo-Indian style measuring canes Various dates late 19th/early 20th century
The first an Anglo-Persian silver and malacca systems walking stick, monogramed "SDMM," the cap unscrewing to reveal compartment containing a thermometer, missing ferrule; and the second a silver-plated white metal-mounted malacca systems cane, opening to a tubular infant-weighing Portia Read spring scale, the handle decorated with pseudo-Tropical scene, with steel ferrule. (2).
L: 35 1/2 in. (longest)