拍品專文
A similar polychrome decorated Simmons walking stick is illustrated in Machmer, Just For Nice (Reading: HSBC, 1991) fig. 26, p.20.
"SCHTOCKSCHNITZLER" SIMMONS (1870-1910), BERKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, 1885-1910
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A CARVED WALKING STICK
"Schtockschnitzler" Simmons (1870-1910), Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1885-1910
Featuring a tapering partially hollowed horn with sawtooth-carved open end grasped in a fully articulated hand tapering to a cylindrical sawtooth-carved collar above an irregular cylindrical stripped-branch shaft terminating in a metal tip
35in. long
"Schtockschnitzler" Simmons (1870-1910), Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1885-1910
Featuring a tapering partially hollowed horn with sawtooth-carved open end grasped in a fully articulated hand tapering to a cylindrical sawtooth-carved collar above an irregular cylindrical stripped-branch shaft terminating in a metal tip
35in. long