Cane
- Object Name:
- Cane
- Object ID:
- 1906.005.04
- Place of Origin:
- Petersburg, VA
- Date:
- 1894
- Description:
- Cane. Medium brown wood, steel, and brass. Knobby wood with handle all in one piece. Decorative ferrule top plating on it, partly worn off. Some knurling around top edge of that ferrule. Tip ferrule length: 0.9" with taper to brass. Small, straight-sided tip end. Tip ferrule held on by small dimples pushed into top edge of metal. About nine branch stubs that help create irregular surface of shaft. It could be that handle is short piece of branch section due to knot at its shaft end.
Below handle is a label with red edges and clipped corners varnished over - "183 Cut in Crater Petersburg Va". - Material:
- Wood
Metal
Steel
Brass - Dimensions:
- W-2.8 L-35.4 D-1.2 inches Weight-3.3 oz
- Provenance:
- Horace W. Harmon Collection. Harmon catalog entry #183: "Cane cut in Crater, Petersburg, Va. This cane grew in the very center of the Crater. Cut Aug. 31st 1894. H.W.H."
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Horace W. Harmon
- People:
- Harmon, Horace W. (1844-1911)
- Subjects:
- Canes
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