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Lot Essay
According to a relative of Mr Smales, when Chaplin came to collect his repaired boots ...he left his cane and never went back for it...
Details
Charlie Chaplin
A bamboo cane owned and used by Charlie Chaplin; accompanied by a press cutting concerning the late Robert Smales, a shoemaker in Tyne and Wear, stating that ...During his apprenticeship at Sunderland he repaired the boots used by Charlie Chaplin then appearing in a music hall in the town...
25in. (64cm.) long (end of cane broken off) (2)
A bamboo cane owned and used by Charlie Chaplin; accompanied by a press cutting concerning the late Robert Smales, a shoemaker in Tyne and Wear, stating that ...During his apprenticeship at Sunderland he repaired the boots used by Charlie Chaplin then appearing in a music hall in the town...
25in. (64cm.) long (end of cane broken off) (2)
Provenance
Ex-lot 145 Film and Entertainment, Christie's South Kensington, 9 December, 1999
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.