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A photograph of a museum-style display of antique walking sticks and canes packed into a dark grey ceramic urn in the foreground. The canes include a curved golden-yellow crook handle, black sticks with gold banding, red-and-black lacquered shafts and silver-capped tips. Behind them stands a wooden display cabinet with glass panels holding small objects. To the right, a turquoise painted wooden bucket holds folded pink cloth. No people are visible. The lower left shows a carved stone or wooden figure partly in frame.

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Two wooden walking sticks with T-shaped handles stand upright side by side against a plain white cloth backdrop, with a cream cloth on the floor below. Both have turned, banister-like shafts in warm brown wood, and small brass ferrules at their bases. The left stick is a darker reddish-brown, the right a lighter honey tone. No people are present.2011-10-24A photograph of a single carved wooden walking stick standing upright against a pink wall on a grey tiled floor. The stick has a rounded knob handle with dark inked decoration, a dark band below the handle, and a spiral-carved shaft tapering to a black ferrule at the base. No people are present.Close-up photograph of a walking stick handle shaped as a bird's head with a curved beak, against a pink background. The metal handle has a brassy, worn finish, an engraved eye and a crosshatched pattern on the neck, and a ring band joins it to a wooden shaft below. No people are visible.1995 - fresh biographical archive Items touched and used by The SPH discovered1995-01-01Close-up photograph of a hand gripping the handle of a wooden walking staff or cane against a dark background. The hand, with visible knuckles and fingernails, holds a metal ferrule or collar and a carved wooden top section with a small silver knob. The lower shaft is wrapped in orange cloth. Only a hand is visible, with no face, body or other people in frame.2006-05-25A photograph of a single wooden walking stick standing upright against a pink plastered wall with a grey tiled floor. The reddish-brown wooden shaft has diamond-pattern carved bands and a brass ferrule at the tip, and the curved brass handle is shaped like a bird's head. No people are visible.December 05 20162016-12-05A long walking cane or staff lies horizontally across a plain peach-orange cloth. The shaft is dark with a decorated middle section of pinkish-red and gold patterned inlay, and the handle is a curved white crook at the right end, with a metal ferrule at the left tip. No people are visible.2006-12-11Photo 11727782 +1 copiesClose-up photograph of a man's right hand gripping the carved wooden handle of a walking stick against a dark background. The hand's fingers wrap around an ornate, carved brown handle with a metal collar above a yellow-brown wooden shaft. Only the forearm and hand are visible.2006-05-25March 14 20172017-03-14 +1 copiesA photograph of a wooden walking stick leaning vertically against a pink textured wall. The stick has a rounded, bulbous wooden handle at the top with a dark ring collar beneath it. The shaft shows dark scribbled or swirling markings in blue-black ink, a dark band midway down, and diagonal crosshatch carving near the bottom. No people are visible in the image.