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Lot 228
Two Antique Silverplate Hound Head Handled Canes
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Late 19th century, including a leather hook handle with silverplate bulldog head mount, over a black lacquered wood shaft, unmarked (35 1/2 in.); the second with angled silverplate hound head form handle, over an ebony shaft, engraved "L. J. Keefe / Nov. 24th 1887" to ferrule, otherwise unmarked (34 3/8 in.).

Both likely missing metal ground tip; some marks to shaft, hound handle shaft with crack and associated chipping to distal end.