A Fine Novelty Victorian Walking Stick with Parquetry Balloon Handle sub-Curios the salt bag made up

the salt bag made up of four main colours

Very rarely on the open market

others were finely painted with mythological or figural subjects

but not always

A Fine Novelty Victorian Walking Stick with Parquetry Balloon Handle sub-Curios the salt bag made upOrigin: English Period: Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 Length: 35 inches Handle Top Diameter: 2 inches The ebonised oak cane profusely carved with nulling, terminating in a steel collar and a fine and unusual balloon shaped parquetry chequered mahogany handle, with the original brass ferule also present. The handle is, in particular, wonderfully tactile and conjures up the magic of hot air balloon flight in Victorian times.