Tag: walking canes

Walking sticks with handles that look like fish and their little animal friends. Taken from a current Tooveys’ Auctions catalog.

Bamboo walking cane, the boxwood handle naturalistically carved as a branch and inset with two ivory insects. Late 19th c. Maker not known. Image © Toovey’s. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/438869/a-late-19th-century-bamboo-walking-cane
Ebonized walking cane, the Chinese Yixing stoneware handle modeled as a bird. Late 19th c. Image © Toovey’s. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/438872/a-late-19th-century-ebonized-walking-cane
Edwardian walking cane, the horn handle carved as the head of a bird with inset glass eyes, together with another walking cane, the boxwood handle carved with a hunting scene. ca. 1910. Image © Toovey’s. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/438874/an-edwardian-ebonized-walking-cane
Ebonized walking cane, the stag antler handle carved as a fish head, together with another stag antler handled walking cane inset with mother-of-pearl eyes. Early 20th c. Image © Toovey’s. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/438877/an-early-20th-century-ebonized-walking-cane
Ebonized walking cane, the horn handle carved as a tiger above a nickel plated collar. Early 20th c. Image © Toovey’s. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/438881/an-early-20th-century-ebonized-walking-cane

Walking stick handles carved to look like dogs. All of them taken from an auction catalog from Tooveys. So much more interesting than the Amazon kind.

Sectional full length ivory walking cane, the handle carved in the form of a dog, together with another walking cane, the ivory handle carved in the form of a dog’s head with inset green eyes.19th c. Makers not known. Image © Toovey’s 2017-2021. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/438864/a-19th-century-sectional-full-length-ivory-walking-cane
Ebony walking came, the ivory handle carved as a dog’s head inset with red glass eyes above a plated collar. Late 19th-early 20th c. Maker not known. Image © Toovey’s 2017-2021. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/438866/a-late-19thearly-20th-century-ebony-walking-cane
Ebonized walking cane, the ivory handle carved as a dog’s head with inset glass eyes above a gilt metal studded collar. 19th c. Maker not known. Image © Toovey’s 2017-2021. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/438873/a-19th-century-ebonized-walking-cane

Note: these all have ivory but were made around 1900 or earlier. If it was not antique ivory and if I was not familiar with the auction house I would not use them. Indeed they would not be auctioning them off if it was new, either.