A COLLECTION OF WALKING STICKS BY BEN COX, BRIGG, MERRY, SWAINE & ADENEY, LONDON, MID-19TH - EAR

A COLLECTION OF WALKING STICKS
BY BEN COX, BRIGG, MERRY, SWAINE & ADENEY, LONDON, MID-19TH - EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Comprising: a silver-mounted bamboo stick engraved 'C.R.S. from G.L.G. JUNE 1887', brass tip; a holly stick by Ben Cox, gilt-metal band engraved 'S' with earl's coronet, '5th' and '6th', metal tip; a silver-mounted malacca combined horse-measure and stick hallmarked 1917, with brass cantilever, lacking original handle and tip; a lady's long stick with gilt-metal band engraved 'Charlotte, Xmas 1866', brass tip; a silver-mounted cane stick hallmarked 1908 with silver whistle at apex of flat handle; a bamboo combined horse-measure and stick by Merry & Co., with white-metal band engraved 'Lord Suffield, Gunton Park', folding brass cantilever; a silver-mounted naturalistic stick dated 1890, handle engraved 'GIVEN TO ME BY UNCLE BEAUCHAMP, OCTOBER 1890, C.F.S.', brass tip; a silver-mounted ebonised cane dated 1884 with handle engraved 'C.R.S.', copper tip
The lady's stick: 49 in. (125 cm.) long (8)

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