SOLD FOR $7,200

Large Whale Ivory and Whalebone Walking Stick, circa 1850, a well defined ivory fist grip and collar clenching a scrimshawed serpent twice through the palm and around the wrist. The collar and ivory section divided by two copper spacers, one carved with a series of octagonal disks, reeding and cross-hatching; the tapering shaft with fine and deep hatch-work above a rounded ring above a rope carving with worm-line, ending in a 4 ¼” ferrule capped in pewter.
Length 34 ¾ in.