Cane
- Object Name:
- Cane
- Object ID:
- 1986.003.01
- Date:
- circa 1900
- Description:
- Cane. Knotty wood with bone (antler) handle. Silver band just below handle, stamped: "STERLING". Silver band at tip. Two decorative lines around circumference at top edge. Slightly beaded collar around top and bottom edges of silver band. Shaft fairly straight. Many small stems cut off and smoothed. A straight row of small, slightly oval depressions with raised edge around them on side of shaft, about 38 from one end to other. Several rows of these depressions around sides of shaft. Originally owned by Frank Dickinson Butler of Portsmouth, maternal grandfather of donor.
- Material:
- Wood
Metal
Skeletal
Bone
Silver - Dimensions:
- W-5.1 L-35 D-1.05 inches Weight-8.85 oz
- Provenance:
- Frank Dickinson Butler, maternal grandfather of donor. Came with Butler Family Papers (accessioned by mss.) See file for Butler genealogy. Butlers lived in Portsmouth, NH, and summered in Rye, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Butler Coleman
- Subjects:
- Canes
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