Victorian Ivory & Silver Floating Compass Gadget Cane ( c1890- 1900)

Good example of a floating compass cane. Mounted in ivory with silver collar and decoration. Silver Hallmarked for Chester but date letter too rubbed to determine year. Mounted on a hardwood shaft and completed with a base metal ferrule.

Condition

The compass, silver and cane are all in good condition for age - free from breaks or cracks yet showing appropriate wear for age.

Measurements

Length: 93cm

Compass Top Diameter: 4cm

Depth of Pommel: 4cm

Diameter Top of Cane: 2.25

Diameter Bottom of Cane: 2cm

This may be a Briar drinks / tippling cane. However,  a little different from the early 20th Century 'novelty soft wood' type that are more commonly seen.

It is unlikely that the metal drinks holder is original but the drinks flask may be. It is the briar wood and the copper top which makes this cane stand apart in design and strength.

 Finished with the original ferrule.

Condition

The cane is in excellent condition for age without breaks or cracks. However, the base ferrule holds a side split but is still firmly in position.

Length

88 cm

Good quality ash step cane. When opened up the cane is used to determine the amount of steps are to be used  within a parade march.

 The cane step adjusted with the brass strap that links the two cane lengths. A brass button and slide latch opens up the cane and keeps the cane firm when closed. The cane is finished with the original trumpet shaped Victorian ferrule.

Condition

The cane is in lovely original condition free from breaks or cracks. A superb age patina on the outer brass fittings.

Length: 90 cm

Truly a  superb telescope and compass gadget cane. The tortoiseshell pommel unscrews to reveal a compass. The upper shaft is covered in  shagreen which  unscrews to reveal the telescope.

The gadget mounted on a gloss high ridge, full bark Malacca with base metal ferrule and brass side eyelets.

Condition

The cane is in superb condition yet show appropriate wear for age

Length

87.5 cm

 Price on Application

18th Century Mughal Indian sword stick with carved jade handle in the form of a lion's head. The study holding inset rough cut diamonds encircled with gold together  with a deep  Indian silver collar.

Price On Application

A very good quality compass cane set into an ivory case with ivory top. Completed with a lower highly decorated white metal collar.

(not currently tested for silver)

The ivory top holds a carved and stained monogram that is too worn to clearly define.

 The shaft made from what appear to be beech and completed with an ivory ferrule.

Condition

The cane has only one ivory chip on the underside of monogrammed compass top that can only be seen when the top is viewed from below the cane or when the compass top has been removed.

The base ivory ferrule holds a minor expansion line, which evidently has been in place for a number of years. Otherwise the cane is in excellent working condition, yet showing the appropriate wear for age.

Length: 94cm

Good quality well used horse-measuring gadget cane. Likely used by a horse dealer or bloodstock auctioneer.

Deer horn L shaped handle with Malacca shaft and finished with brass collar and steel / brass ferrule.

The length of the brass & boxwood measure is easily pulled from the Malacca shaft. The measurements reaching 17 hands on one side, or a metric reading of 175 cm on the reverse side.

The brass level with glass bubble easily pulls and aligns out from the boxwood length for the measurement.

Condition

This is a good example of a professional well-used gadget cane. All parts of the measure work, as they should. There are no breaks or restoration. However, the lower 10% Malacca bark has worn off.

Length: 93 cm

Good quality pencil gadget walking stick. Boxwood pommel which when lifted off reveals a pencil. The lead of the pencil running down through the cane

Condition

The cane is free from breaks or cracks and shows appropriate wear for age .

Length 88 cm

An interesting little novelty single draw telescope. Mounted on black hardwood shaft and finished with base brass ferrule.

Condition

Minor ding dent on the telescope. Likely the result of being dropped on a hard surface. Glass, brass and shaft free from breaks or cracks.

Length: 75 cm

A good example of a two-drawer telescope gadget cane mounted on a slim fruit wood shaft. The telescope gadget cane finished with a black leather collar & a further brass collar. The base shaft ending with brass  ferrule.

Condition

The telescope gadget cane is in good condition, free from breaks or cracks.

Length: 93 cm

This is a fabulous novelty gadget cane. Likely to be of French or Dutch in  manufacture and finished in England during the early 20^th Century. Cleverly designed and constructed. Evidently part wood with what could be meerschaum together with glass eyes.

The head of the cane unscrews from the sterling silver collard shaft. Tip the Congo cane shaft up and out pops the pipe stem. The pipe stem fits snugly into the rear of the little chap’s head.

Condition:

The cane is in excellent condition apart from what looks like an expansion crack under the nose and mouth of the cheeky cane top.

The silver collar is Hallmarked. However, through wear the only marks faintly evident is the makers mark H&*.

The shaft of the cane is evidently well used but nevertheless in excellent condition free from breaks, cracks or restoration.

The base end metal ferrule appears to be the original – worn but firmly in situe without breaks or cracks.

Measurements:

From Top of Nose to Base Ferrule: 90.5cm

Top of Hat to Base Ferrule: 89.5cm

Height of Pipe: 7cm

A very solid and unusual gadget cane in the form of a sporting dog.   

Made from antler horn and carved into a study of a whippet or greyhound and completed with glass eyes. At the base of the dog head carving is held a machine engraved silver collar (suggested silver - no markings evident and not tested). The study is mounted on a beautiful turned hardwood shaft ending in a metal ferrule.

When the handle is unscrewed and lifted a corkscrew is revealed.

Condition:

The cane is in excellent condition for its age. The dog handle is solid and free from breaks or cracks but does show the characteristics of aged horn. The corkscrew is solid and straight. The shaft again in lovely condition free from breaks or crack and completed with a metal base ferrule, which is also in good condition

Measurements:

Length: 94cm

Top Diameter: 2.75cm

Base Cane Diameter: 1.75

Length of Dog Handle: 12cm

Height of Dog Handle Inc Silver Band but not including corkscrew: 8.5cm

DETAILS ARRIVING SHORTLY

This is a superb example of Art Nouveau design within a sword stick. The silver repoussé decoration holding the Assay for Chester 1908. The makers mark W.N.

The pommel and collar formed from ivory. The shaft made from blackthorn. The base of the cane finished with a copper and steel ferrule.

A twist and pull action on the pommel reveals a slim four sided blade at suggested original length.

Condition

Superb with evidence of wear appropriate to age.

Length: 95.5 cm

Handle Length: 15.5cm

Blade Length: 79 cm

Price on Application

Good quality compass held within white metal case together with lower collar (not currently tested for silver).

The case top holding what appears to be a 2 - letter monogram of 

 P W.

The compass top, mounted on a hardwood shaft and ending in an old  but  replacement brass ferrule.

Condition

The cane is in good condition for age. Evidence of wear to the cane  but free from breaks or cracks. The compass top lid closes neatly but has the tendency to open a little too easily. This likely due to usage and age.

Measurements

Length: 94cm

Top Diameter of Case : 5cm

Russian Silver Handled Sword Stick, the tapering cylindrical handle having a hinged top with applied Imperial crest, concealing a well. The collar with applied monogram and crown above an equestrian crest. The handle bears St Petersburg marks for 1896.

The blade simply pulls smoothly from the black ebonised tapering shaft. The base of the shaft finished with a white metal ferrule. 

Condition

The cane is in beautiful condition with appropriate wear for age. The blade straight without any form of breaks or splits.

Length:

Length: 93.5 cm

Blade Length: 50 cm

Price On Application

A unique, early 20^TH century silver pommel, liquid measuring cane. Suggested use as an alcohol rule for measuring levels in casks . Made by the measuring instrument maker L.Long of London.

Assay for London with what appears to be 1912.  Date letter held but very rubbed.

Measurements on the fruitwood cane are in imperial gallons and marked up to 16 gallons. Original brass & metal base ferrule.

Condition

The cane is in lovely condition for age yet, showing appropriate wear for age. Silver pommel holds a slight ding on the side and very slight silver tear at the bottom collar of the pommel otherwise in lovely condition.

Length :110 cm

A lovely wood carved character head smoker’s gadget cane. Original bone inset eyes. The carved pipe bowl mounted on brass.

Turn the bowl slightly and the Malacca shaft is released. On tipping the shaft the pipe length is revealed, which fits snugly into the rear of the pipe bowl.

The Malacca cane is finished with a base metal ferrule

Condition

The gadget cane is in lovely condition free from breaks and cracks yet showing appropriate wear for age.

Length:  90 cm

The glasses decorated with mother of pearl and brass which is consistent with with the upper supporting cane shaft. The shaft extends and the glasses are moved  over in order to view the opera or theatre event. When the event is over, the extension is pushed down and the glasses are reverted back to the home carrying position

The shaft of the cane made of hardwood and black lacquered - ending in brass ferrule

Length: 88cm

Condition of Cane:

the cane is in excellent condition- free from breaks or cracks.Evaluation suggests the wood has been re-lacquered  at some point, likely to be in keeping with the excellence of the opera glasses. The mother of pearl decoration  is all in place with some minor friction cracks which would have been caused by allowing the cane to drop.

Condition Opera Glasses:

All mother of pearl in tact. The glasses work with ease. The left hand glass has been built up slightly higher with a chrome collar , yet is in keeping with the cane.