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Wood and ivory cane

cane

SCRIMSHAW & ALLIED ARTS - CANES
marad; scrimshaw
wood; ivory
LOA 35-1/4 in.

Cane with ivory knob carved in shape of turk's head knot. Top of palm wood staff octagonal and tapers to become rounded. Octagonal section inlaid with whalebone, baleen and mother-of-pearl diamond-shaped inlays, whalebone 5-pointed star-shaped inlays, mother-of-pearl quarter moons. Hole through the top of the staff. Tip of staff whalebone.


1939.1857