Lot Essay
For similar walking sticks, see Machmer, Just For Nice (Reading: HSBC, 1991) figs. 79, 81 and 83, p.31.
AMERICAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY
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A CARVED WALKING STICK
American, late 19th century
With rounded cylindrical grip above a ring-carved collar over a tapering cylindrical shaft fully relief-carved with a twisting descending ribbon of serrated leaves interspersed with exotic animals including a baboon, an elephant, a camel, a stag, a giraffe, a rhinoceros, a wildcat, a flying bird and a long twisting, snake
38 7/8in. length
American, late 19th century
With rounded cylindrical grip above a ring-carved collar over a tapering cylindrical shaft fully relief-carved with a twisting descending ribbon of serrated leaves interspersed with exotic animals including a baboon, an elephant, a camel, a stag, a giraffe, a rhinoceros, a wildcat, a flying bird and a long twisting, snake
38 7/8in. length