Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first with guilloche enamel and silver handle centering a shield crest, over a malacca shaft with turned brass ground tip, stamped "STERLING / SILVER" (34 3/4 x 1 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.); the second with carved sphere handle, the center with Masonic imagery relating to "ARDENTE AMITIE /O.-. DE ROUEN," over a tapering mahogany shaft (32 1/4 in.); the third with Victorian silver ball handle, mark of Julius Klinkhardt, London (1892), the exotic wood shaft concealing a hidden sword (33 1/4 x 1 1/4 x 1 1/4 in.); the fourth likely English, featuring a carved wooden handle in the form of an exotic bird or albatross, with apical carved horn mount is possibly a snuff reservoir, mounted with glass eyes, over a carved wood and polychrome shaft simulating caning.
From the Collection of Adrienne and John C. Maxwell, Jr. Surface wear to shafts and handles; masonic stick's handle with age crack to ferrule; some denting and tarnish to silver.
