Six Walking Sticks

late 19th/early 20th century, including:
an American walking stick with horn crop handle with sterling silver tip and collar by Gorham Co., Providence Rhode Island, engraved on the collar "WWM / 1910", with palmwood shaft and steel ferrule, l. 35-1/2";
an English walking stick with celluloid crop handle with white metal coils and collar, ebonized shaft, and brass ferrule, l. 35-3/4";
an American walking stick with Rococo-scroll engraved gold-filled crop handle with inscription "Presented to James Yalden by his assistant in the Newark Investigation", with ebonized shaft and white metal ferrule, l. 36";
an Asian walking stick with bamboo crook handle and metal ferrule, l. 39";
an English walking stick with sterling silver crop handle cap and collar hallmarked London, 1902-1903, by Jonathan Howell & Co., palmwood shaft, ferrule lacking, l. 35-1/4"; and
a German walking stick with .800 silver crop handle and collar by Wilhelm Binder, Schwaebisch-Gmuend, engraved on the collar "von May zu Nathan", thornwood shaft and silverplate ferrule, l. 36".


Provenance: Private collection, New Orleans, Louisiana.

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