Cane

Object Name:

Cane

Object ID:

1995.506.01

Date:

1695

Description:

Cane. Malacca wood with silver head. Top of head is engraved "[pelican with three stars] Andrew / Wiggin / 1695". Bird engraved on top of cap near edge, facing left. Sides of head engraved with floral decoration. Malacca wood shaft. Surface medium tan and smooth, but many small dark scratches and smoothed nicks in it from top to bottom. Small, long arc to shaft with bend in center. Silver head/handle is a slightly tapered cylinder. Scallops around bottom edge with engraved lines on them. Smoothed band and narrow, raised ring with two small plain beads above scallops. Engraved fanciful series of scallops above band. Cord hole through center of handle. Eight-petal blossom engraved around hole on each side. More fanciful scallops around circumference below cap piece. Two grooves around cap piece's edge; slightly domed. Silver ferrule on tip. Ferrule has rounded scalloped top edge; three scallops missing. Rectangular steel shaft extending slightly from bottom of tip, 0.15".

Material:

Wood
Metal
Silver

Dimensions:

L-36.2 Dia-1.3 inches Weight-10.4 oz

Provenance:

According to typescript note in file, the cane was probably presented to Andrew Wiggin (1672-1756) of Stratham, NH, by his father Andrew (1635-1709). It descended to Andrew III, then Andrew IV, then Andrew Merrill Wiggin, then to the latter's brother, Josiah Bartlett Wiggin.

Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Collection

People:

Wiggin, Andrew (1635-1709), Wiggin, Andrew (1672-1756)

Subjects:

Canes