Brass Walking Stick, Based

Walking stick with a pale curved handle and a bark-textured shaft.

This walking stick of wood, horn and brass dates to the late 19th or early 20th century. Horn can be softened with heat and shaped, and it was often paired with brass fittings on canes and sticks for grip, decoration and durability. Slim, knobbly reddish-brown shaft with a roughened, scale-like surface and a visible joint near the lower third. A cream-coloured crook handle with a metal collar tops it. It stands on a black square display base. It is 4 inches wide, 4.75 deep and 32.25 high.

Always ready to lend an arm, assuming one is nearby.