system-canes-with-tools-and-compass
Lot 600
System Canes with Tools and Compass
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Anglo-India, circa 1880, handle is decorated with a carved ivory band of joined elephants and is threaded to remove tools from the interior (tools not known to be original) rosewood shaft; the second cane, likely English, circa 1880, has an ivory top carved with scholars beneath a tree above a silver repousse surround (unmarked), interior of the malacca shaft contains a very small compass, ivory ferrule (38 in.).

Private Collection, Chicago, IL

Good estate condition. This lot contains animal or plant material that may be restricted under federal, state, and/or local law. Please refer to our Terms and Conditions of Sale.

$600 - 900