Lot Essay
A similar Simmons walking stick is illustrated in Machmer, Just For Nice (Reading: HSBC, 1991), fig. 23, p.20.
"SCHTOCKSCHNITZLER" SIMMONS (1870-1910), BERKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, 1885-1910
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A CARVED AND PAINTED WALKING STICK
"Schtockschnitzler" Simmons (1870-1910), Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1885-1910
Featuring a large red and black-painted and bird carved in the round with articulated eyes, sawtooth and cross-hatch incised tail perched above a double sawtooth-carved cylindrical plinth tapering to an irregular cylindrical stripped-branch shaft, terminating in a metal tip
34½in. long
"Schtockschnitzler" Simmons (1870-1910), Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1885-1910
Featuring a large red and black-painted and bird carved in the round with articulated eyes, sawtooth and cross-hatch incised tail perched above a double sawtooth-carved cylindrical plinth tapering to an irregular cylindrical stripped-branch shaft, terminating in a metal tip
34½in. long