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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 236097, member: 2844&quot;]A swordstick was often carried by gentlemen in the 19th and early 20th century. It provided some safety in dangerous times or areas. Yours looks like the mount could be silver, might be worth giving it a polish and looking for silver marks.</p><p>It says Salvador<b><i><u>e</u></i></b> Dali. That means it is not Salvador Dali, the painter. He never called himself Salvadore, a name which is neither Catalan nor Castilian Spanish. I don&#039;t know if he ever carried a swordstick, or only the regular walking stick in the pictures.</p><p>But since there are so many fakes of Dali lithographs, etc. someone could have tried to pass a &#039;signed&#039; swordstick off as his. Other than that, it is a nice, elegantly simple swordstick.</p><p>Some Dali signatures:</p><p><img src="http://www.artwithoutpretense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Dali-Signatures.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Dali with walking sticks, the last one is the one he seems to have used most:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2F736x%2Fae%2F21%2Fa9%2Fae21a9cc5f2b32d91e2ad2b6e8f628fc.jpg&amp;sp=3337391b470dcda7e3e3864c4e8c42a5" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nifnaks.com%2Fimages%2Fblog_imgs%2F2009%2FDali%2F2009-07-DaliCane.png&amp;sp=c404a6cd681fc610b82d568b43916258" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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