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Lot 1092
Six (6) Vintage Folk Art Wooden Canes, Two with Bone Handles
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
To include: a knotty cane with a lizard, rodent, deer skull and snake below the handle (34-1/5 in.) (old surfaces); carved wooden cane topped with horn handle and having an integral snake slithering up the shaft (36 in.) (attractive old surfaces); a carved and painted cane with relief carved Southwestern Indian-style motifs (36 in.) (some wear to paint); bamboo cane with pineapple form knob, thimble ferrule and heavily lacquered surfaces (36-1/2 in.) (good condition); a McKinley-Roosevelt walking stick from the 1900 presidential election, emblazoned with applied patriotic motifs and the candidates' portraits (34-1/2 in.) (scuffs and wear as expected); wooden cane with carved horn handle that carries a walking hound, a hound's profile and a medallion admonishing us to "Dread God" (35-1/2 in.) (light wear as expected).

From the Estate of the late Jay Neal Morton, Chapel Hill, North Carolina