$390
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.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-03-03