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 L shape silver-handle is 7 cm high x 10 cm to the side x 3 cm wide. It is beautifully shaped in the form of a stork-head with a long pointed beak and finely fashioned feathering. It is on top of a snakewood shaft, there is a bimetal ferrule. The O.L is 87 cm. Without chips or cracks, it has minimal traces of use and the condition is excellent.

The herons are the long-legged freshwater and coastal birds in the family Ardeidae, with 64 recognized species. *Wikipedia 

The large-handle is 35 cm high, it is assembled in two segments of certified silver, it is wonderfully hand chased, decorated with clover-leaves and scrolls like classic patterns of ancient Mediterranean cultures, there are two caskets carved in camel-bone intercalated. All silver piece is adorned with a composition of eighth polished and inserted turquoises and corals alongside. It ends with a 12,5 cm ferrule that repeats the same patterns of the handle and is embellished with two corals. It shows minimal signals of usage, any dents any cracks on the metal, the condition is perfect.

The 5 cm diameter silver sphere on top, attached to a silver segment 10 cm high, split-up to take out the defensive 70 cm long sword, it is a faceted blade of fine blue-steel, it has no designs or marks or any oxidations or dents, it is in perfect condition and is conceived to get in the chamber in only one way. The O.L. is 99 cm, this rarely encountered 19th-century piece has the imposing presence of a Staff of a dignitary and has survived intact the last 150 years.

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 substantial elephant ivory is 11 cm high x 5 cm to the side x 3,5 cm wide. It is carved as an elephant head with large ears, tiny eyes and a trunk curved inwards flanked by two mighty tusks.  The detail of the skin-corrugation on this pachyderm is astonishing. This small but nevertheless monumental composition is accented by a parade harness and long foliage in the background. There is a plain turned ivory collar and it is on top of a sound ebony shaft and finishing with a staghorn tip. The O.L. of the cane is 91 cm. There is a little chip in the ivory collar hardly noticeable (see picture), without any chips or cracks on the handle the condition is perfect!

We deliver this piece with a signed document issued by a certified appraiser, corroborating the ivory is older than 100 years and therefore before 1947.

An elephant represents commitment, strength, and power. The elephant attains old age and with it, wisdom and… long memory. The Elephant is considered a strong symbol of luck in Thailand. The Hindu god of wisdom and success, Ganesh, is usually depicted with an elephant's head. The elephant has been a symbol of the Republican Party of the United States ever since 1874.  * Book of symbols.

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 without tip, the O.L. is 88 cm. basket has a little chip at the upper edge (See pictures) hardly noticeable, the condition is excellent.

This unusual Belle Époque crutch handle carved on a selected piece of elephant ivory represent a beautiful siren lying on water plants, it measures 9 cm high, 24 cm. a long side and 2,5 cm thick. The detail is wonderful, it is on top of a sound malaca shaft finishing with a 3 cm, ivory tip. The O.L. is 90 cm, with no hair lines or chips or cracks, the condition is perfect. This adorable piece fits perfect in hand, it is a very wearable cane. 

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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A splendid and translucent massive piece modeled in light green horn to imitate Bamboo. The width of the handle is 12 cm, and 13,5 cm high. Its construction involved heating, stretching and fussing of the massive horn in technology that is now long lost, this cane has been made in three segments, the detail of the buds is amazing, it has a bimetal ferrule. The O.L. is 90 cm, without any damage, the condition is perfect.

The cylindrical silver handle is 10,5 cm high and 3 cm diameter, it is embossed and decorated with scrolls and a dragon as symbol of status. In this Cane the shaft is the core, it is Rosewood decorated with minuscule mother pearl pieces depicting pendant blades and flowers, it is exquisite inlaid in a segment of 50 cm long, it has a metal ferule. The O.L. is 95 cm. Only a few of the blades are missing, it is hardly noticeable, the condition is excellent.  

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.

The elephant ivory handle is 10 cm high and 4 cm diameter, it represents a skull carved on top of the handle, there are a snake and a few flies engraved on it. The triangular shape steel blade is 48 cm long and is conceived to enter in the chamber in only one way. It has an original ferule, the O. L. is 88 cm and without chips or cracks the condition is excellent.

It is a very good example of an 18^th c. defensive cane made for the upper class.

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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 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.

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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