The 5 cm. high x 2,5 cm diameter cylindrical handle, is made of glass-paste in the Pate de Verre Murano technique. It features multiple flowers in the primary and secondary colours, much like that seen in fine Italian Venetian glass 19th century paperweights. It is on top of a hardwood shaft with a metal collar idem a horn tip. The O.L. is 97 cm. Without chips or cracks, the condition is perfect, this Cane survives intact inside a cupboard the last 120 years.

This large handle depicts a majestic Bengal Tiger 8 cm high x 12 cm to the side x 3 cm wide. It is perched on a branch watching its prey alert. The cast is magnificently executed, the shape encompasses perfectly the anatomical proportions of this beautiful feline. The collar has German hallmarks: 900 for silver, A.P. and unreadable makers-marks, unfortunately, the tail has a dent (see pictures) it is on top of a darkly-polished laurel-wood shaft and ends with a bimetal ferrule. The O.L is 91 cm. and the condition is excellent.

In this cane, function meets style and quality, it has a very dynamic design, it fits perfect, is a very wearable cane.

The motif of the exotic animals came into fashion with the first ones appearing around 1860 in major European cities and giving to the great public and for the first time the chance to see many of the wonders of nature.

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The whole cane is made of a single piece of ash. The figure depicts a masterly carved wolf with glass eyes and coloured face 10 cm to the side x 4 cm wide. It is brand marked: MADE IN ENGLAND close to the horn tip, also marked CAMPION PARIS above close to the figure which indicates it had been retailed to this fancy shop in the French capital. The O.L. is 93 cm, it ends with a horn tip and the whole cane has minimal signs of usage, the condition is perfect.

The elephant ivory handle is 7 cm high x 3.5 cm to the side, it is marvelously carved representing a group of four dogs hunting fiercely a big bear on top of a hill, it is wonderfully fashioned in the German manner and deeply carved with high skills, there is a pearl string collar integrated in the carving. It is on top of a reddish ebony shaft with an ivory tip. The OL is 92 cm. Showing minimal signals of use and without chips or cracks or hairlines the condition is perfect !

The silver and gold knob handle is 4,5 cm high x 3 cm diameter, it is elaborated engraved with scrolls and an elegant gold raised-monogram of Batista’s initials FB interlaced. It is on top of a robust knobby-mahogany shaft shimmering with a beautiful honey shadow.

The massive bronze handle is 7 cm high x 11 cm to the side x 4 cm at widest. It is shaped as a long-eared donkey harnessed and adorned with jingle bells and pom-poms. There is a plain horn collar, it is top of a sound malacca shaft with a beautiful honey colour in a warm and uniform patina, it presents two metal eyelets to pass a cord through. The OL is 93 cm it ends with a copper ferrule. Without dents or cracks on the bronze or malacca, the condition is excellent.

This fruitwood handle is 8 cm high x 12 cm to the side and 5 cm wide, it is masterly carved representing a hare displaying a well figured furry coat and a fine muzzle, it livens up by two insert, red glass eyes, there is a metal collar fixed with nails, it is on top of a knotty wood shaft ending with a bimetal ferrule. The OL is 90 cm. With no cracks, only the wear of use, the condition is excellent.

Art Nouveau was inspired by Nature and Fertility; thus, the sinuous forms of plants, women and animals were exquisitely represented.
 

The whalebone handle is 8 cm high x 5 cm to the side x 4 cm at its widest. It depicts in fine detail a bourgeois Macaque-monkey with glass eyes wearing a bonnet and a collar. When a button on the back of the head is engaged, it stick-out his tongue on a gracious way. It is on top of a macassar ebony shaft, there are a metal collar and a bimetal ferrule. The O.L. is 92 cm and without chips or cracks, the condition is perfect.

The elephant ivory handle is 3,5 cm high x 8 cm to the side x 2,5 cm wide, it is naturalistically carved as a long-eared donkey head with a finely figured hairy coat, it has a dark highlighted front upper lip and nostrils. A pair of inset glass eyes adds a lively touch. It is on top of an ebony shaft with a metal collar punched with dots and it ends with a staghorn ferrule.

The ebony-wood handle, shaped for the European market by the Makonde, an old Portuguese colony, is 6,5 cm high x 5 cm to the side x 4 cm wide. It depicts a wonderfully detailed Makonde head carved with high skills, it has a great expression, the ethnographical features are remarkable, the hairstyle, is very fashionable nowadays. There is a metal collar and it is on top of a sound ebony shaft ending with a bimetal ferrule. The OL is 89 cm, with traces of been used, the condition is perfect.

The large crutch handle is 14 cm high x 12 cm to the side x 1,5 wide, it is beautifully shaped to depicts a Coastal-bird with a finely fashioned feathering neck a long pointed beak and two coloured sparkling glass eyes. There are small Austrian marks by the collar. It is on top of a dark wood shaft and ends with a bimetal ferrule. The O.L is 90 cm. Without chips or cracks, it has minimal traces of use and the condition is perfect.

The truncated cone of the elephant ivory handle is inspired in geometry which is the ruler feature of the Art Deco designs, it is 8 cm high x 3 cm diameter. There is a collar made with intercalated ebony & ivory discs of 1,5 cm high, the ebony shaft is a continuation of this cylindrical pattern, tapering down included the originally ivory tip. The OL is 88 cm and the condition is perfect.

For similar examples see La Canne Objet d´Art. C. Dike. Pages 380, 381.

A great carved ivory cane, the elephant ivory handle is 6 cm high, 5,5 cm to the side and 5 cm wide. It depicts a nicely detailed composition of two hunter’s puppies with sulphur glass eyes, watching carefully its prey. There is a gilded collar with English hallmarks on top of a sound malacca shaft, it has a horn ferrule. The OL is 89 cm. The hair lines are very clear, as you see on the pictures but with any chips or cracks, the condition is excelent.

The silver crook handle is 10 cm high x 22 cm to the side x 2,5 cm thick, it depicts an elephant with ivory tusks and red glass eyes, it has tiny French silver marks. It is on top of a slender snakewood shaft with a bimetal ferrule. The O.L. is 89 cm, and without chips or cracks, only signs of usage, the condition is excellent.

The silvered bronze handle is 7 cm high and 3 cm at widest. It is a very interesting historical-Political cane, representing the iconic French Republic symbol Marianne portrayed as a young lady with wonderful detail, wearing the Phrygian cap, and adorned with two laurels branches around, it is signed H.F. and dated 1871. It is on top of a slender Rosewood shaft with pierced eyelets and a 5 cm bimetal ferrule. OL: 91 cm. With no chips or cracks, only a little wear, the condition is excellent.

The crook handle is 9 cm high x 25 cm to the side x 3 cm wide. It is beautifully fashioned in the form of an American Indian with long earrings, a scarf and a head band with diamonds, oval stones and very long feathers. It is on top of a Rosewood shaft, there is a bimetal ferule. The O.L is 90 cm. Without chips or cracks, it has minimal traces of use and the condition is perfect.

The well carved ebony wood handle is 6 cm high x 9 cm to the side x 3 cm wide. It depicts a wonderfully detailed duck with a caricaturesque expression, it has yellow glass eyes, ivory tongue and teeth and the tongue is conceived to vibrate continuously, the mechanics work very well. There is a woven collar made with silver thread. It is on top of a slender ebony shaft carved with dots and ending whit a bimetal ferule. The OL is 88 cm and without chips or cracks the condition is perfect.

Made for the European market, this unusual elephant ivory handle representing a perfect carved Sea Lion with its two puppets in an astonishing composition is 10 cm high and 4 cm at its widest, the ivory quality is supreme, with no hairlines. It has a 2 cm high silver collar, marked with initials B.H. It is on top of a sound Malacca shaft with a bimetal ferrule. The OL is 88 cm and without chips or cracks the condition is perfect.

This one-piece Cane carved from an unknown wood has on top of the handle a Salamander and a Cicada, both, symbolic animals of the warm summers of the French Provence. Prominently carved, are the faces of a king wearing his crown and an indian crowned with feathers, there are sea animals like a turtle, and a fish with the head of an otter, a shell and a palm-three are also represented in the shaft as many animal heads carved in the knots of the wood like a fox, a monkey, a wolf etc. Most of the carved figures are etched and enhanced with a heat-needle. The OL is 95 cm and without chips or cracks, the condition is excellent. Like most of the folk-art canes this one is wearing a warm and wonderful patina.

“Hence, Canes are made by shepherds living in the countryside where stars and seasons are the only points of reference and where time does not matter; by old men sitting by the fireside on whom time has lost its grip; by soldiers waiting in the mud of trenches to go back to life or to march to death; by prisoners for whom freedom is so far away that it has become an abstraction. The cane is the work of a man totally uninhibited, who does not account for his time and for whom time doesn’t matter or no longer means anything” (G. Segas) Popular art canes by L. Jantzen

This Extraordinary and delicate elephant ivory handle is 7,5 cm high, and 3.5 cm at its widest. It depicts an elaborated and well-modeled composition of different fruits exquisitely linking together, collar and eyelets are carved in walnut, on top of a malacca shaft with an old bimetal ferrule, the O.L. is 88 cm. the basket has a little chip at the upper edge (See pictures) hardly noticeable, the condition is excellent.

The flattened sphere handle made in elephant ivory is 3 cm high and 6 cm. diameter, the terrace has a bronze badge engraved with a bunch of grapes and three characters, the chamber on top unscrews to reveal a corkscrew, in the lowest chamber there is a glass flask closed with a cork to keep a sample of the best spirits, it has a 2 cm. bimetal ferule. The OL is 89 cm. and the condition is excellent.

Similar examples: 24/19 & 24/20 are shown on page 241 of C. Dike's Cane Curiosa.

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The crutch handle is 8cm high and 9 cm at its widest. It is skillfully worked in the damascene style with two shadows of gold on a black steel base. It features above on the curve a mythical flying dragon amidst floral scrolls. On top of a slender ebony shaft, ends with a bimetal ferule. The O.L is 86 cm and the condition is excellent. It is a great example of fine metal work.

A great carved ivory cane, the elephant ivory handle is 6 cm high, 5,5 cm to the side and 4 cm thick. It depicts a nicely detailed hunters puppies whit sulphur glass eyes taking care of a hunted piece. There is a gilded collar with English hallmarks on top of a sound malacca shaft, it has a 3 cm horn tip. The OL is 89 cm. With any chips or cracks the condition is perfect.

This fascinating and seductive beauty showing her breaths is perfectly carved in elephant ivory, it measures 8 cm high and 4 cm to the side. She has Chinese eyes, and is wearing an elaborated headdress adorned with jewels and pearls inspired in the Empire fashion. There is a gilded collar, it is on top of a sound snake wood shaft finishing with a bimetal ferrule. The O.L. is 87 cm. With any chips or cracks the condition is perfect.

Attached to a yew wood shaft with a feminine leg as handle the elephant ivory representing a guitarist monkey playing on a roster and singing, is very well carved with a very funny expression, it is 6 cm high and 4 cm at widest, it has a metal ferrule. The OL is 86 cm. With any chips or cracks the condition is perfect.

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This Walrus ivory animal figure handle is very artistically carved, it has red glass eyes. It is 10 cm to the side and 2,5 cm thick. There is a metal collar, it is on top of a Lignum Vitae shaft with a brass ferrule. The O.L. is 85 cm. with no cracks or hair lines, the condition is perfect.

This elephant ivory unusual handle measures 5 cm high, and 3 cm at his widest. She is wearing Clothes from the antiquity and a headdress adorned with a diadem typical from that era, the carving is wonderful. There is a collar made with a silver woven thread, on top of a slender ebony shaft finishing with a bimetal ferrule. The O.L. is 89 cm with any chips or cracks or hairlines the condition is perfect.

The elephant ivory handle is 6 cm high, 4 cm in diameter and it has a wonderful, over 300 year old patina. It is fashioned in the English pique manner with tinny hollow silver dots. They are arranged in a nine stars motif. All the pique work appears to be intact. There is a 2 cm scalloped silver collar on top of a high malacca shaft. The O.L. is 1,15 Mt and the condition is Perfect. It is a marvellous exponent of this desired kind of canes.

The L handle is 6,5 cm high and 6 cm at widest and is made of a single piece of orange agate that has beautiful translucent depth and shading, its finial is sculpted as a stylized dog. There is a 2 cm engraved metal collar on top of a Japanese bamboo shaft with two ivory eyelets and a metal ferrule. The O.L. is 88 cm. No chips or cracks, the condition is perfect.

The L handle is 9.5 cm long, 4.5 cm high and 3.5 cm thick. It depicts the well-carved head of an Jack Russell Terrier with glass eyes and the familiar brown and white coloration, it is very well jointed on top of a Malacca shaft without tip, the O.L. is 89 cm. It is probably English and the condition is very good.

The Stingray shaft is 70 cm. long, the handle is silver chased on a English colonial pattern 7 cm. long 4 cm. in diameter, O.L. 84 cm. Perfect condition, no cracks.

One-piece of a very unusual combination of Folk-art & System cane, the handle is 30cm wide, it has a metal tip. O.L. 93cm. = 36 5/8in. No cracks, the condition is perfect.

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One-piece cane. In between Folk art and bourgeois, this slender of figure is special made to walk in the marshes. Crowned with a carved nymph adorned with aquatic plants. It has a 5 cm metal tip. O.L. 1,20 Mt. it has no cracks, the condition is perfect.

Ref: F90021

One-piece of a very unusual combination of Folk-art & System cane, the handle is 30cm wide, it has a metal tip. O.L. 93cm. = 36 5/8in. No cracks, the condition is perfect.

S10004