Contemporary Limited Edition and Mode...
New York, Grand Havana Room, Sep 28, 2000
LOT 140
Amusing Animated Walking Stick, circa 1900
USD 1,300 - 1,500
The wooden handle carved as the head of a pug, with a push button under the chin that rolls the eyes and sticks out the tongue, with an 18K yellow gold, textured wavy collar, on an exotic wood shaft having a horn ferrule.
Notes
For similar canes, see CANES, FROM THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE TWENTEETH CENTURY, by Jeffrey B. Snyder, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, P.A., 1993, page 133