Tradewinds Spring 2009 All-Cane Auction Tradewinds is pleased to present our 34th all-cane live auction on May 2, 2009, at 11:00 AM, with preview at 9:00 AM.
For gadget canes, highlights include: A fabulous wooden flute, an important 1672 pique pomander, a fine telescope w/baleen wrap, an excellent spitting Chinese man, a desirable Remington dog gun curio, a great articulating ivory Dalmatian, an unusual cased periscope, a very nice ivory skull snuff-box, a fine Swiss watch, a nice sharkskin telescope, an ivory dogs sword curio, a siren cane, an ivory knob sword curio, a compact cane, a cheroot on leather, a small brass telescope, a fancy vermeil pill box, a cigarette case and match-safe, a political handkerchief flag, an ivory articulating croc., an ivory historical sword curio, a cigarette lighter, a brass cheroot curio, a staghorn sword curio, a gutta percha knobkerrie, an ivory cat automaton, a Brigg pencil, an ivory skull automaton, a dog head spittoon, a pipe w/cigarette holder, a flask, a horn hoof gun curio, and more.
For non-ivory figural canes, highlights include: An outstanding Tiffany Nast eagle, a fine porcelain lady w/veil, a great bloodstone eagle, an unusual wood and ivory death image, a lovely porcelain risqué lady, a wolf in sheep’s clothing, a splendid porcelain man w/long hat, a fine staghorn Shishi, a great wood old shoe, an Art Nouveau silver bird, a staghorn monkeys & bats, a silver w/ frogs, a silver demon, a silver & ivory lady, a wood collie, a silver parakeet, a wood Royal Grenadier, a wood lobster, an albatross beak, a tortoiseshell egg & claw, a porcelain Turk, a silver crook eagle, a wood wildcat & dove, a wood bird-in-hand, a staghorn full bird, a large Art Nouveau silver snake, a small Art Nouveau silver snake, a bronze nude, a wood cat, a silver horse, a Remington type dog, and more.
For nautical canes, highlights include: An outstanding narwhal, a great ivory & whalebone “going ashore”, a fine ivory w/silver whales, a wonderful ivory monster & whalebone, a superb sailor’s macramé, a walrus ivory w/knobby shaft, a rare whale ivory w/pique decoration, an ivory on baleen, an all-whalebone crook, an ivory fist on whalebone, a whale ivory w/mop eyelets, a whale ivory knob w/colored lines, a whale ivory fist & scroll, an ivory knot on whalebone, a turkshead on carved whalebone, a scrimmed whales tooth, a walrus ivory animals on whalebone, an ivory knot on twisted whalebone, an ivory fist on palmwood, an ivory on fluted whalebone, a looped ivory snake on whalebone, and more.
For folk art, political, historical, & relic canes highlights include: A great Old North Bridge relic, two wonderful Julius Hotchkiss canes, a marvelous folk art Civil War soldier, a Boer War P.O.W. from India, an ivory Alexander the Great, an ivory Franz Listz, a great Washinton’s tomb relic, a political handkerchief flag, an ivory U.S. Grant, a folk art multiple faces, a 1907 Shriner’s folk art, a wood balls-in-chamber, a J.G.Tyson folk art, an etched Gettysburg scenes, a.Wichita Kansas folk art, a gutta percha Grover Cleveland, and more.
For accessories and books, highlights are: A very good
