Five Folk Art Walking Sticks

Description:

Five Folk Art Walking Sticks, 19th/20th century, two sticks encircled with integrally carved snakes, one enhanced with polychrome paint; one made of baleen, the top wrapped with thin strips of baleen and a braided band, the lower shaft ornamented with inlaid hearts and rectangular shaped bone segments, and intervals of braided bands, a Thomas Jefferson memorial stick fully decorated with incised fish and leaf motifs, crosshatching, and panels of inscriptions: "THOS. JEFFERSON OF VA BORN APRIL 13 1743...," "WROTE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE," "FOUNDER OF UNIVERSITY VA 1819/DIED JULY 4 1826," and "THIS CANE WAS CUT NEAR JEFFERSONS TOMB"; and a walking stick with applied circular lithographed "Yellowstone Park Hotels" stickers, (imperfections),lg. 31 to 36 in.
Estimate $600-800

-Baleen stick has some small insect loss at the top of the shaft;
: -Painted snake cane has 2 shrinkage cracks near the top 7" and 2", and a little split on the snake head at the top of the shaft.
-Unpainted snake cane- the curved handle is loose from the shaft because dowel connector broke (could easily be repaired).
-Yellowstone sticker decorated stick- several of the edges of the stickers are missing.
-Jefferson memorial stick- a few minor areas where surface texture carving is a little worn down.



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