A pair of walking canes featuring varied wooden shafts and silver mounts. One cane is constructed with a medium-brown, smooth-finished wooden shaft of octagonal cross-section. It is capped with a matching octagonal silver handle. The handle bears the impressed word STERLING in uppercase block letters near the junction with the wood. The flat top of the handle features an engraved script monogram of the letters M B. The second cane features a dark, highly figured shaft carved in imitation of bamboo nodes, finished with a high-gloss dark lacquer. This cane is topped with a cylindrical silver collar or ferrule decorated with an all-over cast or chased vermiculated texture.Measurements/notes: Pair; 32 in. and 36 in. L.