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AEDHard Stone Grand Tour Trophy Cane
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125 West Market Street
Johnson City, TN 37604
United States
Family-owned and family-run Johnson City Tennessee auction business for 25 years. Selling antiques and collectables for 38 years. Kimball M. Sterling, Inc. was founded and is owned by Kimball and Victoria Sterling, time and again, they have laid solid claim to world-wide attention and renown with an...Read more
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LiveJan 3, 2026
Masterpiece Cane auction is all from a Europeon collection. We offer items from this private collection about once a year, Kimball Sterling kimballsterling@earthlink.net
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- Lot Description
Hard Stone Grand Tour Trophy Cane
Ca. 1860
Substantial sardonyx knob fashioned of a beautifully banded and richly dark-hued stone in a fancy Milord shape of an oval cross-section. The tapering body is symmetrically paneled and polished; each facet is hollowed at the top and repeats with a matching indentation. Notable is a strongly waisted collar that adds a beautiful, stylish note.
The knob comes with a slender silver collar, delicately hand-chased with scrolls on a shaft with the sublime piano-like jet-black finish and a horn ferrule.
Probably a custom trophy order for a wealthy visitor on a Grand Tour, this cane plays all the “Maestria of Éclectisme”. It survived flawlessly, and even with the initial black textile hand loop bound around the neck of the knob.
2 ½” x 1 ¾”, O.L. 40”
$500-$600
The Grand Tour was the traditional European travel undertaken mainly by young, upper-class European men of means. The custom flourished from about 1660 until the 1840s, when large-scale rail transit began, and was associated with a standard itinerary. It served as an educational rite of passage. Travel was arduous and costly throughout the period, possible only for a privileged class, the same that produced gentleman scientists, authors, antiquaries, and patrons of the arts.
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