Silver, Enamel, and Bone Indoor Cane

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Masterpiece Cane Auction

By Kimball Sterling

May 24, 2025

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  Ca. 1900 Oval-shaped knob consisting of a wider engine-turned silver and enamel central part with a plain and bold marine ivory top and matching collar. The wider silver part is entirely engine turned, pale azure enameled, and embellished with underglaze micro painted rose garlands in shaded pink and green hanging on navy blue knotted ribbons. Slender gold bands protect its edges and ensure a smooth transition to the flaring ivory top and bottom. Besides the challenge for the silversmith, enameller, and tooth carver, this knob also creates quite a few problems with its fitting to an appropriate shaft, as an oval and round tapering shape is the recurring nightmare of every hard wood turner. Consequently, the knob comes on a 10 ½” tall dark stained fruitwood stem to extend down with a matching round shaft and a horn ferrule. Luxurious indulgence is apparent in the profile of this cane, which comes with a protective, custom-made, and hinged, dark red, velvet, and silk-lined etui to the handle. It was made to different standards and styles, mixed the right ingredients, and survived intact. The overall flavor of the knob as well as its engine turning and enameling hint at the legendary workshops of Georg Adam Scheid, one of the most recognized silversmiths and enamellers worldwide. H. 2 ½” x 1 ½”, O.L. 38” $600-$900 Georg Adam Scheid, from Vienna (1837–1921), is one of the most recognized silversmiths, niello masters, and enamelers worldwide. At the age of 15, he went to Pforzheim, where he completed an apprenticeship and was sent back to Vienna as a sales representative in 1858. There, he founded his first company in 1862. Scheid has been producing high-quality silver and gold jewelry as well as luxury items that have been exported to all of Europe for more than 50 years, with around 300 employees in his factory in Gumpendorfer Straße 85. Sales outlets were in Vienna, Budapest, Paris, St. Petersburg, and Istanbul. The most famous works of Scheid are related to the Austrian secessionist movement and took advantage of the collaboration with famous artists such as Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann, and Josef Maria Auchentaller. He was not only a great artist but also a very successful businessman and an influential figure in Viennese society in the golden age of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of the 19th century.
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