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Rare Pique-Work Whaler's Walking Cane

Stock No

3677

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2015
  • £2,700.00
  • €3,148 Euro
  • $3,377 US Dollar

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Item Description

A rare and finely executed whaler's walking cane, the top two sections made from the tooth of a sperm whale and separated by a band of baleen.
The top inlaid with a five-point star of mother-o-pearl closely surrounded by a ring of brass pique work, the octagonal facets beneath alternatively decorated with a Christian cross.
The lower tooth section pierced with a hole for a lanyard set within a pique work diamond and with conjoined crosses to the alternative faces.
These two tooth sections are joined to the lower shaft of whalebone by a cut screw-thread. The single piece of whalebone from which the shaft is produced has the first quarter carved as slightly swelling octagonal sections separated by plain bands, the faces with alternating designs of single and conjoined crosses; the upper-most section decorated with inlaid pieces of tortoiseshell, again to the alternate faces.
Perhaps continental. Made circa 1860.

Item Info

Seller

WALPOLES

Seller Location

London, London

Item Dimensions

H: 88cm

Period

19th Century

Item Location

United Kingdom

Seller Location

London, London

Item Location

United Kingdom

Seller Contact No

+44 (0)207 7275263

+44 (0)7831 561042

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