Cane
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
1830
Materials
Bone, Silver
Measurements
764 mm (Height); 14 mm (Diameter)
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Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 546977
Summary
Semi-translucent bone cane with silver fittings. Plain round tapered stem of olive brown colour turning to brown towards base. Silver coloured metal cap with rounded head over top of stem. Silver metal band pinned around base. Inscribed - Tail of Rhonoceros canes cost more than £8...etc 1830 (label), Cunnington p153 (verso)
Provenance
An item from the Pamela Ward Collection, left to the National Trust in Miss Ward's will in 1994.
Marks and inscriptions
Cunnington p153 (verso)