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Walking Stick

Collection Type

  • Clothing and accessories

Date

1850-1875

GUSN

GUSN-64146

Description

Black painted hardwood stick, rounded and tapered to a metal tip (missing). Handle is spiral molded white metal with a silver patina; ovoid at top and tapering to wood body.

Details

Descriptive Terms

walking sticks
accessories
lead (metal)
wood (plant material)
Stick, Walking
Cane
Lead
Cane

Associated Building

Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

36.375 x 1.625 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Margaret Carson Holt

Accession Number

1970.817

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