Lot Essay
According to the vendor, this cane was won in a competition run for cinema owners/managers accross Australia.
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Charlie Chaplin
A bamboo cane marked 1932, the cane -- 36in. (92.7cm.) long; accompanied by a printed promotional postcard for the 1914 Keystone film His Prehistoric Past, picturing Chaplin in various guises on the obverse and printed details of it's showing at a cinema in Australia on the reverse He slips back through the ages; he flirts with prehistoric maids; he fights the mighty King CHAS. CHAPLIN ...."Prehistoric Past" to be seen at the CROWN PICTURES, Wollongong, Saturday Next, March 6th, ONE NIGHT ONLY -- 3x5in. (8.9x14cm.) (2)
A bamboo cane marked 1932, the cane -- 36in. (92.7cm.) long; accompanied by a printed promotional postcard for the 1914 Keystone film His Prehistoric Past, picturing Chaplin in various guises on the obverse and printed details of it's showing at a cinema in Australia on the reverse He slips back through the ages; he flirts with prehistoric maids; he fights the mighty King CHAS. CHAPLIN ...."Prehistoric Past" to be seen at the CROWN PICTURES, Wollongong, Saturday Next, March 6th, ONE NIGHT ONLY -- 3x5in. (8.9x14cm.) (2)