Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first, a folk art style cane with handle in the form of a bearded face, with rubber tip, unmarked (41 in.); the second, with carved tree and bear paw print decoration to shaft below carved knotted tree trunk form to upper shaft culminating in a bear torso, with initialed metal cartouche to shaft, rubber tip (37 in.); the third, a walking stick with painted wood rattlesnake wrapping shaft, signed "Mike Stinnett #51-2016" to shaft, with rubber tip (56 in.); and the fourth, a snake form walking stick, marked with initials and "98" to shaft (51 in.).
Private Collection, Edenton, North Carolina Folk art cane with a few scattered chips to shaft and handle; cane with bear torso with chips to both ears; snake form walking stick with possible loss to tongue, minor scattered surface marks to whole.