A Visual History of Walking Sticks and Canes

Anthony Moss

doi:10.5771/9781538144961

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-4495-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-4496-1
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 544
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgements No access
3. Navigational Aid to Entries No access
4. Foreword No access
5. Preface No access
6. The Dandy No access
1. 1. 1. John Francis Crook, Conductor and Composer (c.1847–1922) No access
    2. Submarine Telegraph Cable Canes No access
    3. Boston Post Canes No access
    4. The Brooks-Summer Affair No access
  2. 1. Inverythan Rail Accident Commemorative Cane No access
    2. A Memorial Cane for Wladislaw Spiridion Kliszczewski No access
  3. Conrad in Cardiff: A Friend of Joseph Korzeniowski known as Joseph Conrad No access
1. 1. 1. Shooting Sticks No access
  2. City (or Court) Canes No access
  3. 1. A Rat Catcher’s Cane No access
    2. An Architect’s Cane No access
    3. A Funeral Director’s Cane No access
  4. 1. Ear Trumpet Canes No access
    2. A Phrenology Cane No access
    3. Blind Canes No access
    4. Map Canes No access
    5. Vesta Canes No access
    6. Camera Canes No access
  5. Cheroot Cannon Canes No access
  6. Greek Olivewood Canes No access
  7. Spanish Makhila Canes No access
  8. Watch Canes No access
  9. Squirter Canes No access
  10. 1. Sword Canes No access
    2. Blades and Shafts No access
    3. Gun Canes No access
    4. Gadget Defence Canes No access
  11. Decorative, Dress and Fashion Canes No access
  12. System and Gadget Canes No access
  13. Torch Canes No access
  14. The Automaton Canes No access
  15. Glove-Holding Canes No access
  16. Sabbath or Sunday Golf Canes No access
  17. Musical Canes No access
  18. 1. Writer’s Canes No access
    2. Pencil Canes No access
    3. Pounce Pot System Canes No access
    4. Portable Watercolour Canes No access
  19. 1. Folk Art Walking Canes with Black Forest Attribution No access
  20. Cultural Character Canes No access
  21. Children’s Umbrellas and Canes for Little People No access
  22. Salesmen’s Samples No access
1. 1. 1. The Lion and The Snake No access
    2. The Snake and the Vulture No access
    3. Mythological Beings No access
  2. 1. Monkeys and Apes No access
    2. Giraffes No access
    3. Reptiles No access
    4. Big Cats No access
    5. Elephants No access
    6. Bears No access
  3. 1. Farm Animals No access
    2. Pigs, Warthogs and Boars No access
    3. Horses No access
    4. Dogs No access
    5. Cats No access
    6. Aquatic Life No access
    7. Frogs and Toads No access
    8. Insects No access
    9. Snakes No access
    10. Birds No access
  4. Fictional Characters No access
  5. Fruit No access
  6. 1. The Language of Flowers No access
  7. Hands No access
  8. Erotic, or Risqué, Canes No access
  9. Bells and Whistles No access
  10. 1. Famous Historical Characters No access
    2. Subversive and Political Canes No access
    3. First World War Canes No access
    4. The Boer War No access
    5. Prisoner-of-War Canes No access
    6. Personal Treasures: First And Second World War Trench Art No access
    7. Second World War Canes No access
1. 1. Handle Styles No access
  2. A Guide to Handle Types and Shapes No access
  3. Walking Stick Shafts No access
  4. Collars or Bands No access
  5. Eyelets No access
  6. Swivels and Clevises No access
  7. Ferrules No access
1. 1. 1. Wooden Spears No access
  2. 1. Ancient Egypt No access
    2. Ancient Greece No access
    3. Ancient Rome No access
  3. 1. Ancient China and the Monkey Pole No access
    2. Early Japan And the Bō Staff No access
    3. Weapons of Southeast Asia No access
    4. Weapons of Silat No access
    5. Tongkat No access
  4. 1. Pilgrimage in Medieval Europe No access
    2. Pilgrim Staffs No access
    3. The Crusades No access
  5. 1. The Sceptre No access
    2. The Crosier or Bishop’s Staff No access
    3. The Guilds of York No access
    4. Guild Identity in Europe No access
    5. The Guild of Freemasons No access
    6. The Medieval Quarterstaff No access
    7. Symbolic Pageantry No access
  6. The Age of Elegance in Europe No access
  7. English Canes from the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries No access
  8. Walking Canes during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries No access
  9. 1. Puritan Canes No access
    2. The Fashion of the Lofty Cane No access
  10. 1. The French Revolution No access
    2. Les Incroyables No access
  11. 1. Beau Brummell and Early English Dandyism No access
    2. The Quaintrelle No access
  12. 1. Piqué Canes No access
    2. Carriage Canes No access
    3. Examples of Piqué Canes from the A&D Collection No access
    4. Physician’s Piqué Canes with Pomander No access
    5. French Piqué Canes No access
    6. English Silver-Handled Canes No access
  13. 1. Walking in Eighteenth-Century London No access
    2. London and Paris No access
    3. The Sedan Chair No access
    4. The Royal Parks No access
    5. The Reality of London in the Eighteenth Century No access
    6. Law and Disorder No access
  14. 1. The Art of Dying No access
    2. Memento Mori Walking Canes No access
    3. Memento Mori in the Victorian Era No access
    4. Timepieces No access
    5. Memento Mori in Medieval and Victorian Europe No access
    6. The Skull and Crossbones No access
    7. Skull Canes No access
  15. 1. Canes in Seventeenth-Century America No access
    2. American Traditions No access
  16. 1. France and Japan No access
    2. Indian Silver and Ivory No access
    3. Chinese Silver No access
  17. 1. A Guide to Social Correctness No access
    2. Travelling in the Twentieth Century No access
  18. 1. The Birth of Modern Style, or Style Moderne No access
    2. The 1920s Emerges from Its Chrysalis No access
    3. Art Deco Interchangeable Cane Handles No access
    4. Art Deco Characteristics No access
  19. 1. Materials No access
    2. Plastics No access
    3. 1925 Paris Exposition of Decorative Arts No access
    4. The Egyptian Revival No access
  20. 1. Paul Iribe: Fashion Illustrator No access
    2. Coco Chanel No access
    3. The Female Dandy No access
    4. The Makers of the 1920s No access
1. 1. Ancient Egypt No access
  2. Ancient Greece No access
  3. Assyria No access
  4. Ancient Rome No access
  5. Ancient India and Burma No access
  6. Siam No access
  7. The Umbrella Comes to Europe No access
  8. Parasols and Umbrellas in Nineteenth-Century London No access
  9. The Ultimate Gadget Cane, 1900–1924 No access
  10. Umbrellas and Parasols Before 1900 No access
1. 1. The Country Cane Today No access
  2. 1. Alexander McQueen, UK No access
    2. Alexandra Sojfer, France No access
    3. Boris Palatnik, USA No access
    4. Cleofe Finati, Italy No access
  3. 1. Cavagnini Peltro, Italy No access
  4. The World of Fashion No access
1. 1. Precious Stones No access
  2. Porcelain No access
  3. Glass No access
  4. Other Materials from Nature No access
  5. Metals No access
  6. Synthetic Materials No access
  7. Techniques No access
Appendices No access Pages 491 - 524
Books on Canes and Walking Sticks No access Pages 525 - 528
Bibliography No access Pages 529 - 530
When the Cane Was King No access Pages 531 - 532
Index No access Pages 533 - 542
About the Author No access Pages 543 - 544