Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-21
VALUABLE WALKING STICKS.
Interesting Historical Facts About
Some Famous High-Priced Canes,
From Tit Bits

Interesting Historical Facts About
Some Famous High-Priced Canes.
From Tit Bits
In hairdresser's window at tha health
resort of La Bourboule some little time ago
an ugly, ungainly cudgel worth about six
pence was displayed, together with the
notice, "A stick of genuine olive wood from
Jerusalem. 1t formerly belonged to Pontius
Plate in the year - of our era Price, l.
UDo francs Any one DESTROYS of wasting
little time might have asked the vendor
Tor proofs of his veracity, but we, having
duly recorded the existence of this remark
able STICK, will pass on to that of Dr. H.
Hale of Detroit, which is to the best of our
bellef, the most valuable stick eXtant
II was formerly the practice of ply
siclans, as old prints prove, to carry canes
IN the hollow heads of which some disin-
fectant was placed, which the doctor smell
ed through perforatfons in the gold top: DR.
Haze famous staff, however, boasts of a
head containing a fine chronometer and is
with its jeweled ornaments worth about
600.
1t is somewhat of a coincidence that two
OF her maJestys most famous walking
SUCKS should be intimately connected with
the Stuart regime, but such is the case
The staff of the stick she habitually uses
we learn, is of stout English oak and was
made Tor and presented to Charles IL by a
culled from branch of the famous tree
whose leafy boughs gave the wandering
king shelter from the Cromwellian soldierv
The original head of gold was removed
some time ago and replaced by an orna-
ment taken from Seringapatam at the fall
of that city, in order to give her majesty a
better grip.
The Prince of Wales, who possesses no
fewer than 172 walking sticks, is obviously
also collector, but we very much doubt
whether he posse SseS a more interesting
specimen than that purchased at the Gull
Ioden sale by her majesty the queen in July
1917. Inc stick in question was made of
hazel wood, and the head was fashioned so
as to represent Wisdom and Folly but tie
special interest it possesses is the fact that
it was once the property of Bonnie Prince
Charlie Her majesty became its owner
by an outlay of f160.
A stick of more than ordinary interest is
one fashioned from an oar belonging to one
of the most famous vessels of this half
century, the confedera tie steam Alabama
that eventually cost this nation some g.
500 600
The head is carved to represent Can't
Semmes of the Alabama; below the bust is
a dog symbolical of Mr. John LancasIer's
yacht, the Deerhound, through whose agen-
cy many of the Alabama's crew were
saved when the ship was sunk by the
kearsarge, off Cherbourg, in 1864. Four
cannon, beautifully designed, form the up
per part of the stem, and the remainder of
the shaft is carved to represent hempen
cables-altogether a walking stick not less
interesting than the one with gold handle
shaped like a cap of Liberty, bequaathed
by Franklin to George Washington.
In July, 1880, a walking stick, once the
property of George ", and before him of
George III, was sold by auction for Els
The staff was of ebony with a top of gold,
upon which were engraved &c. r." and a
crown; the top also contained some locks
of hair of the Princesses Elizabeth, Mary
and Sophie.
1t is somewhat strange that the stick of
Napoleon Bonaparte, Great Britains terri
BILE opponent at the time of the regency,
fourth George for f3S-the stick, by the
way, was of tortoise-shel