Number: 104
Student cane with a horn pommel decorated with an embedded mother-of-pearl disc, probably Germany or Austria, 2nd half of the 19th century. Separately, a wooden tobacco pipe carved with three hunting dogs and a metal lid. The mouthpiece made of bone is embedded in the shaft below the pommel; the pipe bowl is screwed onto the end of the shaft after the metal ferrule has been unscrewed. The hollow shaft of brown wood is painted with black grain.
Total length 105 cm. Lit. C. Dike "Cane Curiosa" p. 67.
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