Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Late 19th-early 20th century, the first in crook handle form, likely walnut, planed in hexagonal faceted form with sterling silver Arts & Crafts ferrule mount, marked "STERLING" (25 1/2 in.); the second a Kepkypa carved cane, likely olive wood, with hound head handle, signed KEPKYA to the upper shaft, brass ground tip (35 3/4 in.); the third with carved Fritz handle in the form of a crocodile, twigspur shaft and brass ground tip, unsigned (32 1/2 in.); fourth a bamboo form with carved meandering landscape and floral design, unsigned (35 in.).
From a Prominent Collector, Aiken, South Carolina Scattered surface wear and denting to metal mounts, commensurate with age and use; bamboo form missing ground tip and minor age stable crack to distal end.