拍品专文
A similar Simmons walking stick is illustrated in Machmer, Just For Nice (Reading: HSBC, 1991) fig. 20, p.20.
"SCHTOCKSCHNITZLER" SIMMONS (1870-1910), BERKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, 1885-1910
细节
A CARVED AND PAINTED WALKING STICK
"Schtockschnitzler" Simmons (1870-1910), Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1885-1910
With black and gold-painted bird carved in the round and nesting in a gold-painted and carved hand tapering to a cylindrical sawtooth-carved collar above a red and gold-painted ring over an irregular cylindrical black-painted stripped-branch tapering shaft
37½in. long
"Schtockschnitzler" Simmons (1870-1910), Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1885-1910
With black and gold-painted bird carved in the round and nesting in a gold-painted and carved hand tapering to a cylindrical sawtooth-carved collar above a red and gold-painted ring over an irregular cylindrical black-painted stripped-branch tapering shaft
37½in. long