Featured Sterling Cane Top ID Help

Heaven's No, yourturn!!

 

You're damn right! Pack up your posts and get outta here by sundown! Y'hear!? Or we'll ride you outta here on a rail!

It's a lovely walking stick, though

 

'Boo-Boo Alert'
lol, you can't leave here yourturn, I love your sense of humour

 

Cxgirl, please check your private messages.

 

As you wish...

 

Shangas, thank you for finding that. I can't say I was dancing to it . . . but I was singing along.

 

Would I be correct to call the top 'basket weave' design?
love the video Shangas, thanks for posting it

 

u could go with that.....

u could say....woven metal....or metal weave...

 

Basket weave sounds right to me.

BTW, I found a cane/walking stick with similar basket weave silver knob. It is titled "The Historic Battle of San Juan Hill Cane." It was estimated to go for $500 to $1,000 with a starting bid of $400. The description of the cane:

"Historical Battle Cane-Dated 1898-A heavy basket woven silver handle, inscribed silver collar "O. B. C. 1898 San Juan Hill Cuba", rich snakewood shaft and a bi-metal ferrule-H. 1 ¼" x 1", O.L. 35 ¾"-$500-$1,000"

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/7016046_historical-battle-of-san-juan-hill-cane

In the auction live bidding catalog or whatever, it says there were "0 Bids." The auction was held in Feb. 2010. Scroll down to #31.
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/20521_antique-cane-auction/?pagenum=2&rows=20

Here is a site with other cane auction catalogs. Down side is that no info is given on the canes.
http://www.jamespriceimages.com/AuctionCatalogs

BTW, there are many sexually explicit canes in some of the auction catalogs. Some are a bit naughty and a few down right obscene. Gee, that prim and proper Victorian age was certainly inundated with porn stuff and such. Imagine walking around in polite, prim and proper (stiff necked) society with one those walking sticks.

--- Susan

 

I like the idea of a 'battle cane'. My battle cane has a 2 foot blade inside its elegant handle and shaft.

Otherwise it sounds like taking a stick to a gunfight.

 

You're very welcome, cxgirl.

I wanted to post a different video, actually, but I couldn't find it, so that'll have to do!!

AF, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought swordsticks are illegal?

 

Not antique ones. I imagine it is illegal to walk the streets with one.

 

So it's legal to own/collect swordsticks, but illegal to carry them in public?

 

Something about hidden ( concealed ) weapons , I'll wager...

 

I expect the pocket knife I carry would be illegal under some knife crime law, but since I am not black or young or both I do not expect this to be a problem.

The secret to untroubled criminality is not to look like a criminal. You know when you have achieved this look when policemen call you 'Sir' without being sarcastic.