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Lot 156
Sale 2158 - Age of Exploration: Travel & Discovery through the Centuries
Oct 14, 2020
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$600 -
800
Price Realized
$1,250
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
A group of three Japanese canes Various dates 20th century
Comprising a silver-mounted carved bone and malacca walking stick, the bone handle carved in the form of a skull and snake, silver marked with maker's mark HH and stamped "STERLING;" a brass-mounted hardstone and carved bone dagger walking stick, the bone shaft carved to imitate bamboo and incised with monkeys, the handle removing to unsheath a 20 3/4-inch blade, the blade apparently unmarked, with horn ferrule; and a carved bamboo systems walking stick, the shaft carved with allover figural samurai carving, the brass ferrule unscrewing to an extending telescoping rod. (3).
L: 36 in. (longest)