Five Folk Art Walking Sticks

Description:

Five Folk Art Walking Sticks, 19th century, two with a horn handles on a wood shaft; one topped with faceted whalebone segment with baleen bands on a spiral shaft possibly made from the skin of a bull whale, or a bull's penis; one probably Japanese, made of bamboo with a relief-carved figure battling a serpent; and one topped with a small whale tooth on a rosewood shaft, (one horn-handled stick with shrinkage crack),lg. 33 to 36 in.
Estimate $400-600

The Japanese bamboo stick has possibly a fishing pole store in the interior of it.


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