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Lot 429
A Collection of Five Vintage Canes
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first with carved horn head of bulldog, silver mounts with mark of J Howell & Co Ltd., Birmingham (1925), on a bamboo shaft (36 5/8 in.); the second with silver handle featuring engraved Spanish village scene, unmarked (tested silver), above a Rosewood shaft (38 3/4 in.); a third with bronze handle cast as hand holding a hammer, bamboo shaft (33 1/2 in.); the fourth with silverplate burlesque leg handle, bamboo shaft, monogramed Roberts to ferrule (3 1/2 in.); the fifth with antler handle atop a natural wood shaft (41 1/2 in.).

Bronze handled missing ground tip; some scratches to silver; some glue residue to silver mount beneath bulldog.