AN AUSTRIAN SILVER-MOUNTED HOLUSKA WATCH CANE

MARK OF THOMAS PORZER, VIENNA, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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AN AUSTRIAN SILVER-MOUNTED HOLUSKA WATCH CANE
MARK OF THOMAS PORZER, VIENNA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The repoussé crook handle modeled with a satyr's mask and a female mask and rotating to wind the inset watch on the malacca shaft, the handle stamped TP
36¾ in. (93.3 cm.) high, the handle 3¾ in (9.5 cm.) long

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Thomas Porzer was a gold and silversmith with premises on the Mollardgasse from 1889-1899. He exhibited at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in 1893 as well as the Expositions in Paris in 1880 and Edinburgh 1890. The ingenious winding mechanism was invented by L. Holuska of Vienna who filed a patent for it in 1885. Related examples are illustrated in C. Dike, Cane Curiosa, Geneva, 1983, p.87.

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