Unusual Carved Boxwood Cane with Thumb Handle and Revolutionary Figures France, c. 1880 The natural angled handle carved to resemble a human thumb, the shaft with full female figure standing over two lions, the reverse relief-carved to depict a man in bicorn hat with beard conforming to natural projection in the stock, among the names inscribed on the figures are Robespierre, Marceau, Mirabeau, and Marat, terminating in deep iron ferrule, refinished, overall wd. 5, ht. 36 in. Footnotes: Provenance Collection of Eddi Van Auken, California. Literature Illustrated in Vertical Art: The Enduring Beauty of Antique Canes and Walking Sticks (2008), cat. no. 187. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing