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Lot 156

An Indian Fakir's Crutch
Late 18th/Early 19th Century

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £900 inc. premium

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An Indian Fakir's Crutch
Late 18th/Early 19th Century

With threaded silver-mounted head comprising rounded mother-of-pearl finial surmounted by a mother-of-pearl bow-shaped top with rounded terminals, and opening to reveal a slender sharply pointed blade of triangular section, on figured spirally twist wooden haft of tapering circular section with foliate engraved silver mount at the top and bottom and carved with overlapping leaves, the latter of turned baluster form
52.5 cm.

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