Lot Essay
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
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A CARVED AND PAINTED WALKING STICK
"Schtockschnitzler" Simmons (1870-1910), Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1885-1910
Featuring a black and red-painted bird carved in the round with gold-painted beak seated in a cross-hatch incised and black-painted nest held in a gold-painted articulated hand twisting and tapering to an irregularly shaped cylindrical black-painted stripped-branch shaft
37¾in. long
"Schtockschnitzler" Simmons (1870-1910), Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1885-1910
Featuring a black and red-painted bird carved in the round with gold-painted beak seated in a cross-hatch incised and black-painted nest held in a gold-painted articulated hand twisting and tapering to an irregularly shaped cylindrical black-painted stripped-branch shaft
37¾in. long