Grand class dress cane, circa 1920, having a deep black onyx handle studded with diamonds and a gold collar. Overall length: 37 inches. Estimate: $5,000-$7,000. Kimball M. Sterling Co. image.
Included in this auction will be a private West Coast weapons cane collection, a New York State collection of ivory canes, canes from a private Ohio collection including gold quartz and a large Tiffany Naste Eagle, an outstanding Mike Orion folk cane, an early 19th century full rhino horn/family crest gold handle cane directly form the heirs of Mexican royalty and a group of nautical canes.
One particular cane of interest is a rhino full-shafted cane. This early 19th century cane has an interesting provenance and to best way to convey it is from the seller himself: “My grandmother came from an aristocratic Mexican family from Mérida in the Yucatan. Her mother was English and her father was a wealthy rancher who had a plantation where they cultivated henequen. This period was the gilded age of Yucatecan society when 10 to 15 families controlled the region and lived lavishly in mansions and lorded it over the Maya Indian population who worked in their houses and on their plantations. The gold knob has the Regil family coat of arms etched upon it and finds its origin in Regil, the Basque country of Spain. My branch of the family immigrated to Mexico in the early 18th century and married into the local aristocracy. Members of my family claim descendence from the original conquistador of the Yucatan, Francisco Montejo. I received this stick from my grandmother Beatriz de Regil in the 1970s, whose hacienda Uayalceh still exists.”
The cane’s overall length is 32 inches. The gold handle is 2 inches by 1 inch and the full shaft is rhino horn. It has a $4,000-$5,000 estimate.
The auction has many ivory erotic canes from private collections and also many gadget canes including guns and swords.
For details phone Kimball M. Sterling at 423-928-1471.
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ADDITIONAL IMAGE OF NOTE
Grand class dress cane, circa 1920, having a deep black onyx handle studded with diamonds and a gold collar. Overall length: 37 inches. Estimate: $5,000-$7,000. Kimball M. Sterling Co. image.