A COLLECTION OF TWELVE ASSORTED WALKING STICKS AND PARASOL HANDLES**
Notice Regarding the Sale of Ivory and Tortoiseshe… Read more THE BARON AND BARONESS DI PORTANOVA A Memoir by Meredith Etherington-Smith To their many, many friends all over the world, it is difficult to believe two such life-enhancers as Sandra and Ricky have given their last party and spoiled their last house guest at Arabesque in Acapulco, surely one of the world's most extraordinary houses. Ricky and Sandra were destined for each other. They loved each other; they lived an enchanted life and they shared their happiness and good fortune unstintingly. Ricky had the dashing good looks of a fifties' movie star - he always reminded me of Errol Flynn. And Sandra! To see the Baroness in ballgown and jewels setting forth from Claridges, in her sea green Rolls Royce, was to see a rare and exotic beauty in full sail. The Portanova's house in River Oaks, Houston was crammed full of wonderful pictures, furniture and objets de vertu. I remember one dinner party there; forty people were seated beside the pool at tables which Sandra had caused to be set with their Salvador Dali vermeil flatware together with the huge 'Moth and Flame' candelabras, which illuminated the event. Their house in Acapulco was no less full of the beautiful and the extraordinary culled from their travels all over the world. Ricky would show one a rare shell, or an exquisite piece of Fabérgé hidden in a box. They assembled marvelous tablescapes and the dining table was never set with the same arrangement. 'Living well is the best revenge' might have been coined as Sandra and Ricky's motto. They lived an enchanted life and the world is poorer for their absence. THE ENTRANCE HALL
A COLLECTION OF TWELVE ASSORTED WALKING STICKS AND PARASOL HANDLES**

19TH 20TH CENTURY

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A COLLECTION OF TWELVE ASSORTED WALKING STICKS AND PARASOL HANDLES**
19th 20th Century
Comprising:
An ebonized wooden walking stick with silver horse-head-form handle with brass bridle An ebonized wooden walking stick with cougar- form handle and ruby eyes
An ebonized wooden walking stick with silver elephant-form handle with lustre finish
An ebonized walking stick with silver handle in the form of a cocker spaniel
A wooden walking stick with horn handle in the form of a horse's hoof
A walking stick of various woods with rinocerous-form handle
A fruitwood and ivory sword-cane/walking stick with ivory handle in the form of a figure climbing a palm tree being chased by a serpent, with a push-button opening to reveal a partially-blued steel blade, French, second half 19th Century
A continental boxwood cane in the form of a female hand with ring and wristwatch, 19th Century
A gold and gem-set parasol handle set with faceted rubies, diamonds and sapphires with rose quartz cabochon finial, apparently unmarked A silver-plated twisted parasol handle
A copper-mounted tortoiseshell parasol handle and a bamboo-form parasol handle
38½in. (98cm.) high, the largest (12)
Special notice
Notice Regarding the Sale of Ivory and Tortoiseshell Prospective purchasers are advised that several countries prohibit the importation of property containing ivory or tortoiseshell. Accordingly, prospective purchasers should familiarize themselves with relevant customs regulations prior to bidding if they intend to import this lot into another country.

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